2011
DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2011.627195
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The national pastime trade-off: how baseball sells US foreign policy and the American way

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“…For these political and legal justifications to work, significant ideological and cultural preparatory groundwork is required. Today, military violence is glorified and transformed into hedonic heroism by the mass media, in sports and in other entertainment and cultural settings (Butterworth & Moskal, 2009;Elias, 2011;Gagnon, 2010;Kelly, 2012;Ottosen, 2009). Military violence by proxy, on gaming consoles, television news broadcasts, or cinema screens can be manipulated very easily to excite and thrill.…”
Section: State-led Harms Harm Regimes and The 'New Neoliberalism'mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For these political and legal justifications to work, significant ideological and cultural preparatory groundwork is required. Today, military violence is glorified and transformed into hedonic heroism by the mass media, in sports and in other entertainment and cultural settings (Butterworth & Moskal, 2009;Elias, 2011;Gagnon, 2010;Kelly, 2012;Ottosen, 2009). Military violence by proxy, on gaming consoles, television news broadcasts, or cinema screens can be manipulated very easily to excite and thrill.…”
Section: State-led Harms Harm Regimes and The 'New Neoliberalism'mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While the nature of their activism varied, several of the most prominent political activist athletes in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including football's Jim Brown, basketball's Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and boxing's Muhammad Ali were each African Americans who spoke out on matters of racial injustice (Goudsouzian 2006(Goudsouzian , 2017Gorsevski and Butterworth 2017;Linden 2016). It is fair to say that issues 2 A similar, if quieter, protest effort was conducted by Toronto Blue Jays player Carlos Delgado, a native of Puerto Rico (Elias 2011). While playing road games in 2004, Delgado stayed in the dugout when his teammates were summoned to the field in stadiums playing "God Bless America" during the 7 th inning stretch.…”
Section: Sports and Politics And Racementioning
confidence: 99%
“…On y voit, dit-on, la preuve d'une supériorité manifeste de la culture physique soviétique, préservée des effets nocifs du mercantilisme qui sévit aux États-Unis. La guerre froide n'étant pas encore pleinement lancée et la réponse américaine se fait curieusement attendre : il n'y a guère que la Little League Inc., en mobilisant les jeunes joueurs de baseball et de softball, pour s'engager avec vigueur dans « la promotion de l'américanisme face à l'idéologie impie du communisme », note Robert Elias 15 .…”
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