‘The Takeaway speaks with Nathan Kalman-Lamb, assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, and co-host of The End of Sport Podcast about the capitalistic underpinnings of violent sports, the role of spectators in the “commodity spectacle” of sports, and the social coercion that pushes athletes to put their bodies, and lives, on the line in the name of entertainment.’
Source: newblackmaninexile.net
