The History and Politics of Motor Racing Lives in the Fast Lane
Damion Sturm is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand).With a specialisation in global sport media cultures (inclusive of celebrity, fan and material cultures), he recently co-edited Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested Terrain (with Roslyn Kerr, 2022)...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Global Culture and Sport Series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT. 2. ‘The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory
- 3. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship
- SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING - 4. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich
- 5. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport
- 6. ‘The Fascist Race Par Excellence’: Fascism and the Mille Miglia
- 7. Vargas, Perón and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism
- SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - 8. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947
- 9. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti
- SECTION IV: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER
- 10. It Was Ironic He Should Have Died in Bed: Racing Drivers, Masculinity and the Politics of Safety
- 11. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing
- 21. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game
- 22. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One
- SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING - 23. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle
- 24. Circuits of Capital: The Spatial Development of Formula One Racetracks
- 25. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China: State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai
- 26. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku
- 27. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf
- 28. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix?
- 29. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation
- 12. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The ‘Grid Girls’ issue
- SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE - 13. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africa’s Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 1934–1993
- 14. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCAR’s Wendell Scott
- 15. Can the Formula One Driver Speak? Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete
- SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY - 16. Formula One as Television
- 17. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1
- 18. ‘Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars’: Motor Racing on Film
- 19. ‘Who D’You Think You Are? Stirling Moss?’ British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity: 1896 to 1992
- 20. ‘The star in the car’: Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture