Greenwashing Sport (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Toby Miller | knygos.lt

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Although the professional sporting world promotes its supposedly green credentials, Greenwashing Sport exposes its complicity in our global environmental crisis. Professional sports are revealed to be directly responsible for significant carbon footprints and ecological crimes, through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries--imbuing those extractive corporations with a positive image by embedding them within the everyday pleasure of sport. Such activities amount to deeply problematic greenwashing.

Toby Miller walks us through the basic theoretical concepts and material histories of the environment and sports. Scrutinizing motor racing, association football, and the Olympic Games, he weighs up their environmental policies, their rhetoric around issues like conservation and sustainability, and their green credentials. The book concludes with the role of the citizen, green citizenship, and organic fan activism in promoting pro-environmental sports.

Touching on multiple disciplines, this is a must-read for students and researchers in media, communications and cultural studies, and environmental studies.