Introduction: The Field of Our Play; Part 1: Containing Political Violence on Fields, Stages, and Dohyos; 1 “You’re Out!": Presence and Absence at the Ballpark - Sean Bartley; 2 Constraint and Violence: Boxing on the Popular Stage in the Nineteenth Century - Susan Kattwinkel; 3 "Sumo: Pressure to Perform as a Capitalist Sport." - John D. Swain; Part Two: Playing Global Politics: the Olympics and Fútbol; 4 Sport and Spectacle in Olympic History: Moving the Body Politic at the 1912 Stockholm Games - Susan Tenneriello; 5 Relational Movements: Fútbol and Peace-building in Colombia - Lisa Jackson-Schebetta; 6 The Politics of Performing the Butterfly Stroke: Yusra Mardini and the 2016 Olympic Refugee Team - Kelsey Blair; Part Three: The Biopolitics of Sports and Physical Culture: the Regulated and Regulating Body; 7 Skirting the Ideal: Embodying Hyperfemininity through Rhythmic Gymnastics’ Evolutionary Leotard and Other Aesthetic Sports’ Vested Vestments - Christine Mazumdar; 8 "If You See Me Collapse, Pause My Strava": Biopower, Fitness Data, and the Anxious Online Performance of the Fit Body - E.J. Westlake; 9 Fit and Fierce: (En)Countering CrossFit - Shannon L. Walsh; Part Four: Political Efficacy: Spectacle, Celebrity Athletes, and Protest; 10 At Play: Cap Anson’s Performance of "Cap Anson" in A Runaway Colt - Travis Stern; 11 Not Knowing Who Won: Muhammad Ali and the Broadway Musical - Stephen Harrick; 12 NFL Activism and Protest in the Age of Trump - Noe Montez; Epilogue: Sporting Performances from Organisms to Algorithms - Kimberly Jannarone
Biography
Shannon L. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA.
