04744nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-41656-9 DE-He213 20251030110909.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240103s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031416569 978-3-031-41656-9 10.1007/978-3-031-41656-9 doi GV706.5 JHBS bicssc SPO000000 bisacsh JHBS thema Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball [electronic resource] : Investigating the Hardwood / edited by Till Neuhaus, Niklas Thomas. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 349 p. 13 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Global Culture and Sport Series, 2662-3412 1.Court Inspection – Introduction to the Edited Collection -- Section 1: The Name of the Game – Rules, Strategies, and Regulations -- 2. Rules, Referees and Recruiting Violations -- 3. Born into Failure – A Recontextualization of the WNBA by an Investigation of the ABL -- 4. Rule Changes and Racism in the NBA -- 5. “BANG!”: Language and the Policing of Sexuality in the NBA -- Section 2: For the Love of the Game – Basketball and its Wider Cultural Relations -- 6. On the Development of Kobe Bryant’s Persona -- 7. You Either Got a Wicked Jumpshot or Selling Crack Rocks – On Basketball’s and Hip Hop’s Shared Foundation -- 8. Double-Dribbles, Dunks, and Dice: The History and Cultural Significance of Basketball Board Games -- 9. “What is He, Your Coach?”: Uncut Gems as a Basketball Movie -- 10. Basketball in Young Adult Literature (Liliana Santos) -- Section 3: Basketball in the Age of (Global) Expansion -- 11. The Basketball Show in The North of France - When the NBA Globalized Culture meets TheLocal Carnival Culture (David Sudre) -- 12. The influence of NBA overseas pre and post pandemic: The case of Mexico (Luis Barroso) -- 13. A geopolitical firestorm between the NBA and China over a tweet (Michelle Tran) -- 14. Marketing the League – A Discourse Analysis of the NBA’s Social Media Handles (Niklas Thomas). This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity. The chapters analyse the fact that the sport of basketball contains alternative logics that can easily clash, and by treating professional basketball as the negotiation place of these multiple demands, ideas, and logics, the editors have identified three areas in which these clashes manifest: the realization of the game; the cultural impact of professional basketball and the global outreach of professional basketball. The book is explanatory and qualitative, offering new perspectives and touching on topics including gender, diversity, racism, and minority experiences within professional basketball. As such it will be of interest to sport sociologists, as well as those researching the history of sport, sports marketing and cultural studies. Till Neuhaus is a Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Bielefeld University, Germany. He has also played professional basketball in Europe. Niklas Thomas is a student of English and Sport Science at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published articles on the sport-society-nexus in international peer-reviewed journals. Sports Sociological aspects. Culture. 59159 Sports Economic aspects. 58058 Political sociology. 57999 Sport Sociology. 68592 Sociology of Culture. 68985 Sports Economics. 65668 Political Sociology. 57999 Neuhaus, Till. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68986 Thomas, Niklas. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68987 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031416552 Printed edition: 9783031416576 Printed edition: 9783031416583 Global Culture and Sport Series, 2662-3412 68988 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41656-9 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 57025 57025