Sport and the Environment

Communication, Politics and Culture in the Age of Climate Crisis
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-04688-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Sport and the Environment: Communication, Politics and Culture in the Age of Climate Crisis confronts a fundamental dilemma. Sport and physical activities are powerful means to communicate the need for action on the global climate crisis and spur environmental awareness among fans, audiences and participants around the world. Yet, these very same activities and spectacles generate their own adverse environmental impacts and are increasingly subject to a range of challenges, including extreme heat, pollution, floods, and shrinking snow and ice cover. This collection confronts that dilemma.

The assembled authors use sport and physical activity to search for answers, all the while knowing that sitting with discomforting tensions is a reality of living with environmental degradation and polycrisis in late capitalism. They respond by critically analysing how environmental problems and challenges are communicated, experienced, represented, contested and, occasionally, lessened as progress is made. The outcome is a volume animated by the urge to understand and act in an effort to realise pro-environmental sensibilities in and through sport.

This book features new, established and distinguished scholarly voices working from different disciplinary perspectives. The chapters cover many topics, including culture wars, citizen science, mega-events, social licence, Indigenous games, greenwashing, environmental activism and animal welfare. The reader is taken from the United Nations to the ice rinks of North America, on to the Olympics and the Southeast Asian Games, and across Australasia and as far south as the remote coasts of Tasmania.  Sport and the Environment is of value to anyone wanting to understand the role of sport and physical activity in the age of climate crisis.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchins, Brett

Lester, Libby

Miller, Toby

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sport, Liveable Futures and Culture Wars in the Age of Climate Crisis Part One – International Frameworks, Sustainability and Mega-Events 2. The United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework: Past, Current and Future Benefits and Challenges to Combat Climate Change in the Sport Sector 3. Sport, Animals and Sustainability 4. Reality Offsets: Climate Meets Capitalism at the Olympic Games 5. The Displacement of Indigenous People and Nature in the Southeast Asian Games Part Two – Tensions, Interventions and Social Licence 6. ‘Wild’ Places: Power and Identity in Mediated Adventure Sport 7. RinkWatch: Citizen Science, Outdoor Ice-Skating and Monitoring Climate Change Impacts 8. Fish For Their Future: Communication Campaigns and Recreational Fishing, 9. Establishing a Social Licence to Operate: Community Sport, Corporate Media and Environmental Risk Part Three – Environmental Care, Stewardship and Nature 10. Morning of the Warming Earth: Surfing’s Role in Communicating Our Changing Climate 11. Ocean Sports, Relationality and Stewardship 12. Nature Games: Traditional Indigenous Games and Environmental Stewardship in Oceania Part Four – Advocacy, Activism and Greenwashing 13. Bigger than Solar Panels: Pat Cummins, Cricket and Climate Change Advocacy 14. Athlete Resistance to Carbon Sports 15. Sustainable Entertainment? SailGP and the Greenwashing of Ecological Blue Spaces and Vulnerable Species in Aotearoa New Zealand

Über Autor(innen)

Brett Hutchins is Professor of Media and Communications in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. His research analyses who wins, who loses, and how from interdependent processes of social, cultural and technological transformation, with a particular focus on the sport media and environmental communication. He is the author and editor of six books, including Environmental Conflict and the Media (with Libby Lester) and Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (with David Rowe).

Libby Lester is Professor (Research) and Director of the Monash Climate Communication Hub (CCCH) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her work is focused on understanding and promoting the role of communications and media in good decision-making about shared social and environmental futures, and she is recognised internationally for her research on environmental communications. She has published seven academic books and more than one hundred book chapters and journal articles in Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Journalism Studies and Environmental Communication, among others.

Toby Miller is a British-Australian-US interdisciplinary social scientist and Distinguished Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara. He is the author and editor of over fifty books, has published essays in hundreds of journals and edited collections, and is editor of Society and Open Cultural Studies. His research covers the media, sports, labour, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy, as well as the success of Hollywood overseas and the adverse effects of communications technologies.