Democracy at the Ballpark

Democracy at the BallparkExamines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy. What is the relationship between sports and politics? Often, politics are thought to be serious, whereas sports are diversionary and apolitical. Using baseball as a case study, Democracy at the Ballpark challenges this understanding, examining politics as they emerge at the ballpark around spectatorship, community, equality, virtue, and technology.

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Multifocal attitude which stretches through media and cultural studies

and is simple enough to apply even to the busiest schedules

Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena

not so much on novelty or punch line

and the Islamic

it may be that the concentration of these pathologies and their depth is what sets the Arab world apart

deadly knife-fighting to mounted combat

but also on the farm situation

Plants play a central role in governing soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics

A family venture turns into a survival effort when a ship is damaged during a tropical storm

Lectures and research students in cultural history