Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART 1: Themes, concepts, theories
	1. Populism, sport, leisure, and popular culture: Setting the scene
	2. Whither “the people?”: Populism, ideology, and the contested politics of sport
	3. Populist elements of SINGO discourse and practice: Unravelling the undercurrents of the popular cultural event
	4. Neuro-liberalism: Enterprise, gender, and the marketing of the self
	5. The radical populist pitch of the 2009–2011 U2360° Tour
PART 2: National contexts and settings
	6. Blame Games: Sport, populism, and crisis politics in Greece
	7. From fascism to five stars: Sport, populism, and the figure of the leader in Italy
	8. Sport, music, and populism in Brazil
	9. Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian cultural politics, and the Rio 2016 Olympics: Left in Lula’s wake
	10. Populism and sports in Latin America: Old and new ways of narrating the nation
	11. Populism and political motives for hosting the FIFA World Cup: Comparing England 1966 and Russia 2018
PART 3: Trump times
	12. Blue collar billionaire: Trumpism, populism, and uber-sport
	13. A tale of two Twitterstorms: The NFL, Donald Trump, and digital populism
	14. The Gaga and the global: American double articulation at Super Bowl LI
	15. Art of t he deal: Donald Trump, the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, and the geopolitics of football aspiration
	16. Afterword: A sociological future for populism?
Index