Democracy At The Ballpark

Author : Thomas David Bunting
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438485683

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Democracy at the Ballpark by Thomas David Bunting Pdf

What is the relationship between sports and politics? Often, politics are thought to be serious, whereas sports are diversionary and apolitical. Using baseball as a case study, Democracy at the Ballpark challenges this understanding, examining politics as they emerge at the ballpark around spectatorship, community, equality, virtue, and technology. Thomas David Bunting argues that because spectators invest time and meaning in baseball, the game has power as a metaphor for understanding and shaping politics. The stories people see in baseball mirror how they see the country, politics, and themselves. As a result, democracy resides not only in exclusive halls tread by elites but also in a stadium full of average people together under an open sky. Democracy at the Ballpark bridges political theory and sport, providing a new way of thinking about baseball. It also demonstrates the democratic potential of spectatorship and rethinks the role of everyday institutions like sport in shaping our political lives, offering an expanded view of democracy.

Author : April Yoder
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477326763

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Pitching Democracy by April Yoder Pdf

"This book focuses on the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic, especially the sport's political ramifications. Yoder argues that Dominicans kept their sense of democratic idealism in part because they were intertwined with the aspirations of baseball as it developed into a transnational industry. Baseball became economically central to the Dominican Republic at the same time as the country was turning toward concerns of development, resulting in an economic and political "Third Way" that drew from both the Cuban and US models"--

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Sports
ISBN : 9780252075230

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Sports in Chicago by Elliott J. Gorn Pdf

Chicago has garnered national recognition by winning the World Series, the Super Bowl, and a string of titles in the National Basketball Association. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic traditions, especially in schools and youth leagues. In fourteen chapters, experts focus on multiple aspects of Chicago sports, including long looks at amateur boxing, the impact of gender and ethnicity in sports, the politics of horse racing and stadium building, the lasting scandal of the Black Sox, and the perpetual heartbreak of the Cubs. Well illustrated with forty photographs, this volume will help historians and sports fans alike appreciate the longstanding importance of sports in Chicago. Contributors are Peter Alter, Robin F. Bachin, Larry Bennett, Linda J. Borish, Gerald Gems, Elliott J. Gorn, Richard Kimball, Gabe Logan, Daniel A. Nathan, Timothy Neary, Steven A. Riess, John Russick, Timothy Spears, Costas Spirou, and Loic Wacquant.

Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307701541

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Ballpark by Paul Goldberger Pdf

An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. And how the site details and the requirements of the game--the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands--shaped our most beloved ballparks. A fascinating, exuberant ode to the Edens at the heart of our cities--where dreams are as limitless as the outfields.

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674417595

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Going Out by David Nasaw Pdf

David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.

Author : Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250244437

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Four Threats by Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman Pdf

An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present. In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound—even fatal—damage to the American democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power—alone or in combination—have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived—so far. What is unique, and alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all four conditions exist. This convergence marks the contemporary era as a grave moment for democracy. But history provides a valuable repository from which we can draw lessons about how democracy was eventually strengthened—or weakened—in the past. By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can see the promise and the peril that have led us to today and chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing democracy.

Author : Christian Welzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107034709

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Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel Pdf

This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms. In multiple ways, the author illustrates how emerging "emancipative values" intertwine technological and institutional changes into a single trend toward human empowerment. The author interprets his broad and far-reaching findings from societies around the world in a new and coherent framework: the evolutionary theory of emancipation.

Author : Markus M. L. Crepaz,Thomas Albert Koelble,David Wilsford
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472111264

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Democracy and Institutions by Markus M. L. Crepaz,Thomas Albert Koelble,David Wilsford Pdf

How institutional engineering affects the life of democracies

Author : Benjamin D. Lisle
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812249224

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Modern Coliseum by Benjamin D. Lisle Pdf

In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. Featuring over seventy-five images documenting the transformation of the American stadium over time, Modern Coliseum will be of interest to a variety of readers, from urban and architectural historians to sports fans.

Author : Neil deMause,Joanna Cagan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780803285484

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Field of Schemes by Neil deMause,Joanna Cagan Pdf

Author : Bob McGee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813537757

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The Greatest Ballpark Ever by Bob McGee Pdf

Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy and the American imagination. In this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious, and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Bob McGee chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening in 1913, on through the eras that followed. McGee weaves a story about how Ebbets Field's architectural details, notable flaws, and striking facade brought Brooklyn and its team together in ways that allowed each to define the other. Drawing on original interviews and letters, as well as published and archival sources, The Greatest Ballpark Ever explores the struggle of Charley Ebbets to build Ebbets Field, the days of Wilbert Robinson's early pennant winners, the eras of the Daffiness Boys, Larry MacPhail, and Branch Rickey, the tumultuous field leadership of Leo the Lip, the fiery triumph of Jackie Robinson, the golden days of the Boys of Summer, and Walter O'Malley's ignominious departure. With humor and passion, The Greatest Ballpark Ever lets readers relive a day in the raucous ballpark with its quirky angles and its bent right-field wall, with the characters and events that have become part of the nation's folklore.

Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226096308

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Beautiful Democracy by Russ Castronovo Pdf

The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.” Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture—civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors—to reveal that beauty provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking. Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Philosophical aesthetics, realist novels, urban photography, and black periodicals, Castronovo argues, inspired and instigated all sorts of collective social endeavors, from the progressive nature of tenement reform to the horrors of lynching. Discussing Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlie Chaplin, William Dean Howells, and Riis as aesthetic theorists in the company of Kant and Schiller, Beautiful Democracy ultimately suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.

Author : Andrew T. Kenyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108486163

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Democracy of Expression by Andrew T. Kenyon Pdf

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech's positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

Author : John F. M. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271076102

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Restoring Democracy to America by John F. M. McDermott Pdf

If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades—a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large majority of the U.S. population starting in the 1870s. It is John McDermott’s purpose in this ambitious book to explain why that reversal happened, how society has changed in dramatic ways since the 1960s, and what we can do to reverse this downward spiral. In Part 1 he endeavors to lay out the overall narrative of change from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing how a novel social structure came to be developed around corporate America to form what he calls “corporate society.” Part 2 analyzes what the nature of this corporate society is, how it is a special type of “fabricated” structure, and why it came to dominate society generally, eventually including the government and university systems, which themselves became increasingly corporatized. The aim of Part 3 is to outline a path of reform that can, if all its parts can be integrated sufficiently to be effective, put us on the path to restarting the progressive movement.

Author : Imtiaz Hussain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811066085

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Transatlantic Transitions by Imtiaz Hussain Pdf

With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas. Both case and comparative studies of such historical cases as the silver, slave, and commodity trades, and whether ideas, such as faith and democracy, have as much impact as these merchandise flows, simultaneously challenge and strengthen the transatlantic paradigm. They permit transatlantic relations to be stretched as far back as to the 8th Century, in turn exposing transatlantic flows hugging global threads, while revealing the strength and size of several unaccounted types of transatlantic transactions, such as the north-south varieties.