Environmental affects

Nascar, place and white American cultural citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID2995348
AuthorsRebecca R Scott (University of Missouri, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume19
Issue1
Pages13-31
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630.2012.753342
OpenAlexW1997590092
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited57

What are the cultural logics linking anti-environmentalism with social conservatism and pro-corporate politics? An investigation of NASCAR (the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) reveals the ways in which this sport embodies a relatively common American structure of feeling and corporeal relation to nature. Industrialization and neoliberal globalization have attenuated place-based identities, ecological affordances and subsistence strategies. As an expression of white American cultural citizenship, NASCAR manages this economic and ecological insecurity through a rearticulation of patriarchal familial commodity consumption and mobility. The evacuation of residual meanings and practices tied to specific ecologies makes the heteronormative nuclear family the privileged site for the type of consumption that signifies national belonging. An expectation of mobility underlines this detached consumption and also constitutes an appropriation of national territory. NASCAR thus represents a genre of American cultural citizenship that is implicated in the cultural politics of environmental protection and other public goods

Appropriation · Citizenship · Consumerism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Music History and Culture

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