Leisure Racism and National Populist Politics responds to the rise and revival of nationalistic ethnocentric and authoritarian forms of hegemony power and control. Importantly as a collection of essays it foregrounds and (re)politicises debates around race and racism recognising the significance of leisure spaces to the emergence of bottom-up polymorphous and dynamic forms of community resistance and belonging. A range of authors present a critical and varied exploration of the global manifestations of state-based increasingly mainstream racist politics whilst concomitantly unpicking connected assemblages of power and control. For example: how homonormativity and whiteness structure queer visibility sexual and civic rights; how white supremacist rhetoric is transformed and differently coded through anti-Black university traditions and state pride; how Western nation-states structure Muslim identity as opposite to national identity; how leisure becomes the site of protest against larger classist and corporate ventures; and how the hegemony of neoliberal state and municipal planning practices and policies about rights to spaces of the neighbourhood city and sport are understood negotiated and challenged. The book serves to not only enhance understanding of populist politics but also to demand an end to ethnic and racial violence perpetuated through nationalistic and racialised discourses about belonging citizenship and social rights to the nation. This edited volume will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in the dynamics of race gender and nation and the politics of belonging in the realm of leisure. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Studies. |Leisure Racism and National Populist Politics | Sport & Leisure
