Junbin Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3936246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Junbin Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Junbin |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2562-1458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking Sporting Mystification in the Present Tense: Disneylimpics, Affective Neoliberalism, and the Greatest Transformation
While questioning the universalization, naturalization, neutralization, and idealization of sport and physical culture, this paper examines the ultimate mystification process of sport and physical culture by expanding upon two conceptual frameworks: Jules Boykoff’s celebration capitalism and Lawrence Grossberg’s affective landscape. It first analyzes the evolution of the Olympics into a corporatized, commercialized, spectacularized, and celebriti…
Wrestling With the Academy: Future Directions for the Cultural Politics of Sport
Synthesizing and responding to the arguments made throughout this special issue, we share our perspectives as early-career researchers on how to revive the study of the cultural politics of sport. First, we argue that the malaise of cultural politics work should be attributed to academic and disciplinary structures that have disincentivized a contextual and political study of sport. Second, we suggest that supporting and highlighting studies abou…
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Rethinking Sporting Mystification in the Present Tense: Disneylimpics, Affective Neoliberalism, and the Greatest Transformation
While questioning the universalization, naturalization, neutralization, and idealization of sport and physical culture, this paper examines the ultimate mystification process of sport and physical culture by expanding upon two conceptual frameworks: Jules Boykoff’s celebration capitalism and Lawrence Grossberg’s affective landscape. It first analyzes the evolution of the Olympics into a corporatized, commercialized, spectacularized, and celebriti…
Wrestling With the Academy: Future Directions for the Cultural Politics of Sport
Synthesizing and responding to the arguments made throughout this special issue, we share our perspectives as early-career researchers on how to revive the study of the cultural politics of sport. First, we argue that the malaise of cultural politics work should be attributed to academic and disciplinary structures that have disincentivized a contextual and political study of sport. Second, we suggest that supporting and highlighting studies abou…
Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Cultural issues (1 works) · Cultural politics (1 works) · Digital Games and Media (1 works) · Discipline (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)