This book offers a critical, interdisciplinary exploration of junior golf in twenty-first century America, positioning it as a rich site for examining broader questions about identity, access, culture, and power within youth sport.Drawing from sport sociology, cultural studies, and sport management, the authors interrogate how structures of race, class, gender, and institutional governance shape participation in junior golf, while also attending to the lived experie...

Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Sport Management Education provides current and future sport academicians with a wide array of pedagogical practices to help move the academic discipline forward, addressing the diverse and global nature of a changing world, industry, and academic landscape. This book introduces and develops a wide array of teaching techniques and learning styles to meet the changing needs of the sports education industry.Rooted in theory and supported by practic...

This concise, practical book examines the significance of social media for the sport industry, explaining key concepts and sharing tools and best practice for the use of social media in sport business communication.Accessibly written and avoiding jargon, the book considers the history, development, commercial impact, social effects, and the legal and ethical concerns of social media in the context of sport. Covering all levels of sport, from professional to grassroots, the book inc...

In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple landscapes and look into a variety of spaces where attempts to tear down or build up pedagogical borders based upon socially-just design are underway. In disciplines ranging from elem...

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics became a contested terrain of public/private interests. They look at college sp...

The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval,...

Set against the sprawling landscapes of the American frontier, "100 Westerns" masterfully compiles a diverse array of stories that span the full breadth of the Western genre. From rugged tales of frontier justice to intimate narratives of homesteading life, the anthology delves deeply into themes of survival, adventure, and the complexities of morality in untamed territories. This collection not only showcases classic narratives but also journeys through the varied stylistic expressions fr...