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Author_Daniel Sailofsky
capitalism
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coaching abuse in sports
college football athlete exploitation
criminal violence by athletes
CTE and sports
elite sport and violence
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forced displacement and FIFA
forced displacement and the Olympics
gender
ice hockey concussions
Marxist analysis of sport (20)
masculinity and sport
NFL concussion crisis
Olympics and over-policing
Olympics corruption
political economy of sport
sexual abuse in gymnastics
sexual abuse in hockey
sexual abuse in sports
socialism
spectator violence in minor league hockey
spectator violence in sports
Sport and capitalism
sport and socialism
sport fandom
sport mega-events
violence against women by athletes
youth sport and harm
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- ISBN 9781469685878
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the "sportswashing" of environmentally harmful industries.
Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders—coaches, league officials, and team owners—obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.
From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.
Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders—coaches, league officials, and team owners—obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.
From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.
Daniel Sailofsky is assistant professor of kinesiology and physical education at the University of Toronto.
