Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture

Bryan C. Clift is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK, where he is the Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research. Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton, UK, and has written widely on sport, leisure, and popular culture in their sociological and historical contexts.

PART 1: Themes, Concepts, Theories 1. Populism, Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture: Setting the Scene 2. Whither "The People?": Populism, Ideology and the Contested Politics of Sport 3. Populist Elements of SINGO Discourse and Practice: Unravelling the Undercurrents of the Popular Cultural Event 4. Neuro-liberalism: Enterprise, Gender, and the Marketing of the Self 5. The Radical Populist Pitch of U2’s (2009-2011) ‘360°’ Tour PART 2: National Contexts and Settings 6. Blame Games: Sport, Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece 7. From Fascism to Five Stars: Sport, Populism and the Figure of the Leader in Italy 8. Sport, Music, and Populism in Brazil 9. Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian Cultural Politics, and the Rio 2016 Olympics: Left in Lula’s Wake 10. Populism and Sports in Latin America: Old and New Ways of Narrating the Nation 11. Populism and Political Motives for Hosting the FIFA World Cup: Comparing England 1966 and Russia 2018 PART 3: Trump Times 12. Blue Collar Billionaire: Trumpism, Populism and Uber-Sport 13. A Tale of Two Twitterstorms: The NFL, Donald Trump, and Digital Populism 14. The Gaga and the Global: American Double Articulation at Super Bowl LI 15. Art of the Deal: Donald Trump, the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, and the Geopolitics of Football Aspiration 16. Afterword: A Sociological Future for Populism?