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Critical Geographies of Sport

Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in many societies. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies, and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to sports geography. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as well as the latest research methods.

Each chapter showcases the merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport, ranging from football to running, horseracing, and professional wrestling. Including cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, the book highlights the ways that space and power are produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures, agencies, and networks. Holding these power relations at the center of its analysis, it considers sport as a unique lens onto our understanding of space.

Truly global in its perspective, it is fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport and politics, sport and society, or human geography.

Natalie Koch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA. Her current research focuses on state-making, nationalism, geopolitics, and authoritarianism, with a special interest in spectacle both in urban landscapes and in events like national celebrations and sports. An elite cyclist herself, she has a long interest in the intersection between political geography and sport, and has published numerous articles in journals such as Political Geography, Urban Geography, Geoforum, Social and Cultural Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

Series Editors
Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald
University of Brighton

The Routledge Critical Studies in Sport series aims to lead the way in developing the multidisciplinary field of Sport Studies by producing books that are interrogative, interventionist and innovative. By providing theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded texts, the series will make sense of the changes and challenges facing sport globally. The series aspires to maintain the commitment and promise of the critical paradigm by contributing to a more inclusive and less exploitative culture of sport.

Also available in this series:

British Asians and Football Culture, identity, exclusion Daniel Burdsey	The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports Belinda Wheaton
Culture, Politics and Sport Blowing the Whistle revisited Garry Whannel	Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games Jules Boykoff
Olympic Media Inside the biggest show on television Andrew C. Billings	Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain An ethnography of Basque fandom Mariann Vaczi
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport Edited by Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald	Olympic Exclusions Youth, poverty and social legacies Jacqueline Kennelly
The Gay Games A history Caroline Symons	Critical Geographies of Sport Space, power and sport in global perspective Edited by Natalie Koch

Critical Geographies of Sport

Space, power and sport in global perspective

Edited by Natalie Koch

First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2017 Natalie Koch

The right of Natalie Koch to be identified as the author of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Koch, Natalie, editor.
Title: Critical geographies of sport : space, power and sport in global perspective / edited by Natalie Koch.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2016] |
Series: Routledge critical studies in sport | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016018277 | ISBN 9781138927124 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315682815 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: SportsAnthropological aspects. | SportsSocial aspects. | Human geography.
Classification: LCC GV706.2 .C75 2016 | DDC 306.4/83dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018277

ISBN: 978-1-138-92712-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68281-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

In memory of Doug Foster

Contents

NATALIE KOCH

PART I
Sports, geopolitics, and state space

PAULIINA RAENTO

JON BOHLAND

SLAVOMR HORK

MAGID SHIHADE

VELI-PEKKA TYNKKYNEN

NATALIE KOCH

ARLENE CRAMPSIE

PART II
Sports, community, and urban space

LISE NELSON

JUNG WOO LEE

SIMON COOK, JON SHAW, AND PAUL SIMPSON

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN

NEIL CONNER

BRADLEY GARDENER

NICHOLAS WISE

DAVID JANSON AND NATALIE KOCH

Jon D. Bohland is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. His research interests are focused primarily on the intersections between geopolitics and popular forms of culture including sports, visual science fiction, and public practices of collective memory. His published work has appeared in journals such as Southeastern Geographer, Dialogues in Human Geography, and Southwestern Geographer, and in collected volumes including Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction; Battlestar Galactica and International Relations; and Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer.

Neil Conner is Assistant Professor of Geography and Social Science Education at Delta State University. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Tennessee studying the intersections of political and cultural geography. His dissertation research explores the politics of national identity, migration, and religion in Dublin, Ireland. His publications on sports include Global cultural flows and the routes of identity: the imagined worlds of Celtic FC (

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