Sporting Pedagogies

The Author: Michael D. Giardina is Visiting Research Scholar in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published widely on sport, race, and the politics of culture.

«Seldom is a new work published which totally transforms a discipline. Part manifesto, part personal narrative, and part cultural criticism, ‘Sporting Pedagogies’ is such a book. In eight closely reasoned chapters, Michael D. Giardina demonstrates the value of critical pedagogy for the study of sport, culture, politics, and identity in a post-9/11 world. This is a stunning accomplishment, at once powerful and evocative – a brilliant pedagogical intervention in its own right. ‘Sporting Pedagogies’ defines a new trajectory, a new starting place for the next generation of students and scholars of sport studies. The field owes Giardina a great debt.» (Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)