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Competitive Junior Golf in America : A Physical Cultural Study.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King-White, Ryan.
- Series:
- Social Justice and Equity in Contemporary Sport Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book offers a critical, interdisciplinary exploration of junior golf in twenty-first century America, positioning it as a rich site for examining broader questions about identity, access, culture, and power within youth sport.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prelude
- Introduction: Why Junior Golf? Why Now?
- The Youth Sports Economy and Competitive Junior Golf
- A Cultural Study of Competitive Junior Golf in the United States
- Research Methods and Representation of a Junior Golf Story
- Why Read this Book?
- Chapter 1: Junior Golf in America from the 1890s to the Second World War
- The History of Golf and the Development of the Two-Pathway Junior System
- The Privilege Pathway
- The Labor Pathway
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Modern Junior Golf: From Keynesianism to Neoliberal Late Capitalism
- Junior Golf in Postwar America
- Late Capitalism and Postwar Junior Golf
- The Rise of Neoliberalism
- Articulating Corporate Youth Sport
- Corporatized Junior Golf
- The Consumer Pathway
- Junior Golf in the Neoliberal Moment
- Chapter 3: The Contemporary Junior Golf Experience: An Ethnography
- On Course Experiences: What a Typical Tournament Looks and Feels Like
- Origin Stories (Hint: It's Almost Always Men)
- Dialectic Reinforcement of Social Identities
- Competitive Golf Is "For the Boys"
- Rich Kids "Being Rich"
- Race: See It, Don't Say It
- The Value of Competition and Learning to Fail
- Training to Become a Professional in Neoliberal Times
- Chapter 4: Digital Takeover: Junior Golf and the Entrepreneur of the Self
- The Importance of the Personal Brand in Neoliberal America
- Foucault's Concept of the Entrepreneur of the Self
- Institutional Pressures for Personal Branding in Competitive Junior Golf
- Parental Involvement and Early Brand Development
- Practical Application and Development of the Self-Brand
- Importance of Academics (Step #1)
- Branding, Performance, and Projection (Step #2 and #3)
- Branding, Online Presence, and Communication with Coaches (Step #4 and #5).
- Corporate Influence, NIL Deals, and Private Capital
- NIL and Private Capital as Benefit to Personal Brand Development
- Resistance to the Digitization of Junior Golf
- The Invested Body
- Chapter 5: Family, Fatherhood, and Raising Junior Golfers
- A Junior Golf Autoethnography
- May 9th, 2021
- Family Background
- The Junior Golf Moments that "Matter"
- City Tour to Corporate Junior League (2018-2020)
- Corporate Junior Tour and Beyond (2021-Present)
- Activating Privilege Through Golf
- Cost
- Success
- Education
- Contributions
- Limitations and Future Directions
- Coda
- Appendix A: Tournament Typologies and Notes on Access, Observation, and Interpretative Process via Ethnography and Autoethnography
- Tournament Typologies
- Nonprofit Organization
- PGA
- American Kids
- Not-For-Profit Regional and National Junior Golf Tours
- The Ethnographic Process
- Autoethnographic Contexts and Strategies
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781978769281
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