Adam Beissel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Beissel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Beissel |
| SIGNATURE | BEISSEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2024-0629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A tale of two cities: A case study approach examining the inter-city competitive bid process for the 2026 Fifa Men’s World Cup
This paper examines the 2026 FMWC intra-city competitive bid process, focusing on the urban politics and governance strategies of two major US cities – Cincinnati, Ohio and Baltimore, Maryland – as they sought to provide FIFA with unprecedented financial commitments and government guarantees in a bid to secure 2026 FMWC matches. Drawing on the theories of urban entrepreneurialism and spaces of urban capital, we use a case study approach to invest…
Sports Gambling Cultivation
In 2018, the United States Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) and deemed the act unconstitutional. This decision opened the proverbial floodgates for legalized sports gambling, increasing advertising while transforming the contemporary sport-media landscape. Consumers have been bombarded with new in-game graphics, targeted advertising, gambling language, and constant gambling-specific content. Toda…
The quest for authenticity amid activism and sportswashing: A netnographical study of Chinese satellite fans during the 2022 Fifa Men’s World Cup
The 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup is poised to leave a complex legacy, marked by the array of social, economic, and political controversies that enveloped the tournament. In this study, we utilized a netnographic approach to explore the identities of satellite fans within two online communities during the World Cup tournament. By specifically focusing on the cooptation and dismantling of sport activism within a non-western satellite fan context, we o…
We Did It: A Content Analysis of Australian and New Zealand Online News Media Coverage of the Bid Process for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup
The purpose of this study was to examine online news media coverage of the Australia–New Zealand joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following neoliberal feminist theory and a postfeminist framework, the meanings and discourses of women’s empowerment produced in, and disseminated by, Australia and New Zealand’s popular online news media were explored. A content analysis was used to examine 77 domestic online news media articles pub…
A new hope? Fifa 2.0, Fifa Women’s Football Strategy, and event bidding for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup TM
The FIFA Women’s World CupTM 2023 (FWWC23) bidding process was the first major women’s football tournament awarded following FIFA’s landmark reform package known as FIFA 2.0: The Vision for the Future. This paper interrogates the conjunctural politics of the FWWC23 competitive bid process, exploring the unique ways in which FIFA shapes, influences, and controls event bidding for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Based on an analysis of official documen…
Transnational Corporations of Football Kin: Migration, Labor Flow, and the American Samoa Mirab Economy
In the U.S. territory of American Samoa, gridiron football has emerged as an important driver of a stock-flow relationship in which the stock of overseas-resident migrant athletic laborers sustains the flow of remittances to their extended family in their homeland. Within this article, I consider the significance of gridiron football within American Samoa's MIRAB ( Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy) economy, a model of Pacific Island mi…
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Sport in the Aspirational Corporate University: A Genealogy of Athletic Programming Development at Towson University
This project will specifically focus on the symbiotic relationship between the intercollegiate athletics program and corporatization of educational functions and leadership at Towson University as emblematic of the influence that neoliberal corporate capitalism has had on institutions of higher education and its stakeholders. We offer a genealogy of Towson University athletics to interrogate how the athletics program is a byproduct of, and vehicl…
The Limits to “Nascar Nation”: Sport and the “Recovery Movement” in Disjunctural Times
This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport’s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both “local” and “global.” It also briefly illustrates the problematic natur…
The Limits to “Nascar Nation”: Sport and the “Recovery Movement” in Disjunctural Times
This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport’s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both “local” and “global.” It also briefly illustrates the problematic natur…
A new hope? Fifa 2.0, Fifa Women’s Football Strategy, and event bidding for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup TM
The FIFA Women’s World CupTM 2023 (FWWC23) bidding process was the first major women’s football tournament awarded following FIFA’s landmark reform package known as FIFA 2.0: The Vision for the Future. This paper interrogates the conjunctural politics of the FWWC23 competitive bid process, exploring the unique ways in which FIFA shapes, influences, and controls event bidding for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Based on an analysis of official documen…
Transnational Corporations of Football Kin: Migration, Labor Flow, and the American Samoa Mirab Economy
In the U.S. territory of American Samoa, gridiron football has emerged as an important driver of a stock-flow relationship in which the stock of overseas-resident migrant athletic laborers sustains the flow of remittances to their extended family in their homeland. Within this article, I consider the significance of gridiron football within American Samoa's MIRAB ( Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy) economy, a model of Pacific Island mi…
Sport in the Aspirational Corporate University: A Genealogy of Athletic Programming Development at Towson University
This project will specifically focus on the symbiotic relationship between the intercollegiate athletics program and corporatization of educational functions and leadership at Towson University as emblematic of the influence that neoliberal corporate capitalism has had on institutions of higher education and its stakeholders. We offer a genealogy of Towson University athletics to interrogate how the athletics program is a byproduct of, and vehicl…
The Limits to “Nascar Nation”: Sport and the “Recovery Movement” in Disjunctural Times
This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport’s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both “local” and “global.” It also briefly illustrates the problematic natur…
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Sport in the Aspirational Corporate University: A Genealogy of Athletic Programming Development at Towson University
This project will specifically focus on the symbiotic relationship between the intercollegiate athletics program and corporatization of educational functions and leadership at Towson University as emblematic of the influence that neoliberal corporate capitalism has had on institutions of higher education and its stakeholders. We offer a genealogy of Towson University athletics to interrogate how the athletics program is a byproduct of, and vehicl…
Transnational Corporations of Football Kin: Migration, Labor Flow, and the American Samoa Mirab Economy
In the U.S. territory of American Samoa, gridiron football has emerged as an important driver of a stock-flow relationship in which the stock of overseas-resident migrant athletic laborers sustains the flow of remittances to their extended family in their homeland. Within this article, I consider the significance of gridiron football within American Samoa's MIRAB ( Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy) economy, a model of Pacific Island mi…
We Did It: A Content Analysis of Australian and New Zealand Online News Media Coverage of the Bid Process for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup
The purpose of this study was to examine online news media coverage of the Australia–New Zealand joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following neoliberal feminist theory and a postfeminist framework, the meanings and discourses of women’s empowerment produced in, and disseminated by, Australia and New Zealand’s popular online news media were explored. A content analysis was used to examine 77 domestic online news media articles pub…
A new hope? Fifa 2.0, Fifa Women’s Football Strategy, and event bidding for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup TM
The FIFA Women’s World CupTM 2023 (FWWC23) bidding process was the first major women’s football tournament awarded following FIFA’s landmark reform package known as FIFA 2.0: The Vision for the Future. This paper interrogates the conjunctural politics of the FWWC23 competitive bid process, exploring the unique ways in which FIFA shapes, influences, and controls event bidding for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Based on an analysis of official documen…
Sports Gambling Cultivation
In 2018, the United States Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) and deemed the act unconstitutional. This decision opened the proverbial floodgates for legalized sports gambling, increasing advertising while transforming the contemporary sport-media landscape. Consumers have been bombarded with new in-game graphics, targeted advertising, gambling language, and constant gambling-specific content. Toda…
The quest for authenticity amid activism and sportswashing: A netnographical study of Chinese satellite fans during the 2022 Fifa Men’s World Cup
The 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup is poised to leave a complex legacy, marked by the array of social, economic, and political controversies that enveloped the tournament. In this study, we utilized a netnographic approach to explore the identities of satellite fans within two online communities during the World Cup tournament. By specifically focusing on the cooptation and dismantling of sport activism within a non-western satellite fan context, we o…
A tale of two cities: A case study approach examining the inter-city competitive bid process for the 2026 Fifa Men’s World Cup
This paper examines the 2026 FMWC intra-city competitive bid process, focusing on the urban politics and governance strategies of two major US cities – Cincinnati, Ohio and Baltimore, Maryland – as they sought to provide FIFA with unprecedented financial commitments and government guarantees in a bid to secure 2026 FMWC matches. Drawing on the theories of urban entrepreneurialism and spaces of urban capital, we use a case study approach to invest…
Political science (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (4 works)