Welcome to The End of Sport Podcast!
In this first episode of the show, Derek Silva and Nathan Kalman-Lamb introduce themselves to listeners and explain the project of the show. Derek is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King's University College at Western University. You can find some examples of Derek's recent scholarship on sport, national identity, and crime and punishment here, here, and here. Nathan Kalman-Lamb is a Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. You can find his book Game Misconduct and recent scholarly articles here and here.
In the first half of the show, Derek and Nathan discuss the MO of the podcast and address why they started it in the midst of a global pandemic when sport has ceased to exist entirely. The genesis of the name of the show, then, is a gesture to that absence and the opportunity it produces to interrogate what capitalist sport is and means, and perhaps to imagine sport beyond the instrumental and dehumanizing institution we have come to know.
In the second half of the show, they discuss what sport means to them personally and how they wed that with their academic interests, including their theoretical frameworks (we find out if Derek is a Marxist). The hosts also foreshadow their on-going critique of US college sport with an appraisal of what exploitation means in that context (for more on this, check out Derek Van Rheenen's illuminating piece).
Finally, the show discusses what listeners might expect moving forward – topical commentary, interviews with a range of figures in the world of sport, and readings of salient popular culture texts on sport.
Derek and Nathan would love to hear your feedback at theendofsport@gmail.com. You can also follow on Twitter @endofsportpod @derekcrim @nkalamb and Instagram @endofsportpod. If you are interested in any paywalled links from the show notes, please feel free to get in touch at any of these places and we will be happy to hook you up with the readings.
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**For a transcription of this episode please click here. Huge thanks to @Punkadmic for making this happen!**
Episode 61: Klete Keller, Sport Media, and The Whiteness Problem in Swimming with Christienna Fryar and Matt Hodler
Episode 60: Sport and Politics on the Field and in the Academy with Lucía Trimbur, Part II
Episode 59: Ethnography of a Gridiron Concussion Crisis with Lucía Trimbur, Part I
Episode 58: “A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story” with Ciara McCormack, Part II
Episode 57: “Our Passion Was Used Against Us” with Ciara McCormack, Part I
Episode 56: Raging Against the (College Sports) Machine with David West and Ricky Volante
Episode 55: Constructing New Rooms with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Episode 54: Anthropology of an American Pandemic with Adia Benton
Episode 53: Georgia On My Mind with Amanda Mull
Episode 52: Fascism, Spectacle, and Politics with Maximillian Alvarez and Sina Rahmani
Episode 51: Racialized Organizations, Politics, (and Sports) with Victor Ray
Episode 50: Harm and Hockey with Rick Westhead
Episode 49: Sport and COVID-19 Special with Gavin Yamey and Zachary Binney
Episode 48: #WeAreUnited with Otito Ogbonnia
Episode 47: Talking Gymnastics with Jessica O’Beirne of GymCastic
Episode 46: Swimming While Black with Jamal Hill
Episode 45: Racialized Nationalism and Hegemonic Masculinity in Swimming with Matt Hodler
Episode 44: The Culture of Abuse in Swimming with Katherine Starr
Episode 43: The Golden Age of Black Swimming with Kevin Dawson
Episode 42: Cheer, College Football, and Suffering as Virtue with Amanda Mull
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