Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics

Andrews, David L.; Lopes, Victor Brito; Jackson, Steven

doi:10.1002/9781118475089.ch23

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“…Contemporary sport has been described as the opposite of what God intended for our physical selves (Lee Sinden 2013) and has come under intense critique in terms of its moral standing (see, for example, Hoffman 2010;McNamee 2010;Watson 2012aWatson , 2012bWatson and Parker 2013a). Professional sport in particular is an environment that takes place against a neo-liberal backdrop that expects, demands and celebrates identity and bodily development and re-invention as an act of personal responsibility (Andrews et al 2015). As a result, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Christian athletes have often reported experiencing a series of moral dilemmas associated with inhabiting the elite sporting world and living with the demands and expectations of its dominant value systems such as a 'win at all costs' mentality (see Stevenson 1997;Watson and White 2012;Watson and Parker 2013b).…”

Section: 'Sportianity' and The Legitimisation Of Performance-based Id...mentioning

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Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts

Jones

Parker²,

Daniels³

2020

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Existing literature on the work of sports chaplains has focused primarily on practitioner accounts of chaplaincy with elite athletes. While these narratives provide useful descriptions of personal experience and practical application, they are largely devoid of theoretical grounding. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by proposing the need for sports chaplains to have a more critical understanding of sport and its relational dynamics. We begin by problematizing some of the historical assumptions underpinning elite sport, especially in relation to identity formation. We then explore some of the moral dilemmas which may be experienced by Christian athletes who inhabit contemporary sporting contexts. In line with the work of established sociological scholars, we then move to a critical analysis of performance-based identity and how an understanding of sociological concepts and ideas might assist chaplains in their work with elite athletes. The paper concludes by identifying sports chaplains as key figures in the disruption of performance-based identity.

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Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts

Jones

Parker²,

Daniels³

2020

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“…The analysis of celebrities in the sports world has been flourishing in recent years (Andrews et al, 2016;Cashmore, 2016). Douglas Kellner (1996, p. 459) noted, "In contemporary media culture, sports is a major field of the spectacle," and celebrities play a pivotal role in spectacle creation.…”

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The White Racial Frame in Sport Media: Framing of Donald Trump and LaVar Ball’s Public Feud Following the UCLA Basketball Player Arrests in China

Turcott

Boykoff

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This article utilizes the “white racial frame” to analyze the sport media coverage of the public feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and basketball celebrity entrepreneur, LaVar Ball. The feud originated in November 2017, when LaVar’s son—University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) player LiAngelo Ball—was detained in Hangzhou, China, for shoplifting along with two of his UCLA teammates. After some tense moments, the three players were released and flown back to the United States. The U.S. President Donald Trump took credit, leading to a prolonged, prickly exchange with LaVar Ball. This article analyzes six major U.S. newspapers and six sports-specific outlets that covered the Trump–Ball feud. First, we identify the predominant frames that appeared in coverage. Second, we track whose views were included in the news and how sourcing inflected the appearance of particular frames. The incident highlights how racialized language—if coded and dog whistled—enters public discussion through the lens of sport. It also highlights the role of social media, especially Twitter, in influencing news production.

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“…The analysis of sports celebrities has been flourishing in recent years (Andrews et al, 2016; Smart, 2005). Douglas Kellner (1996: 459) notes, “In contemporary media culture, sports is a major field of the spectacle,” and celebrities play a pivotal role in spectacle creation.…”

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Sporting dissent: Colin Kaepernick, NFL activism, and media framing contests

Boykoff

Carrington

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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In August 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback on the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, sat in protest during the national anthem. He made it clear that his stance was a political statement against racialized oppression and police brutality carried out against people of color in the USA, and in doing so he became a polarizing cultural figure. This article uses content analysis to examine newspaper coverage of the emergence and evolution of Kaepernick’s political activism over a critical two-year period, from August 2016 through August 2018. First, we identify the dominant frames that media adopted when covering his protests and their aftermath. Then we examine who got to speak in the articles: which sources tended to predominate and how did this inflect the principal frames? Finally, we explore whether Kaepernick’s activism deepened discussions over police brutality against African Americans or racial inequality in the USA. We conclude that the print media’s coverage was largely favorable to Kaepernick even as much of the coverage reduced the protest from being about racial injustice in the USA to being framed, reductively, as an “anthem protest.”

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Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts

Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts

The White Racial Frame in Sport Media: Framing of Donald Trump and LaVar Ball’s Public Feud Following the UCLA Basketball Player Arrests in China

Sporting dissent: Colin Kaepernick, NFL activism, and media framing contests

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