@prefix vivo: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix ns0: . vivo:departmentOrSchool "Arts, Faculty of"@en, "Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department of"@en, "Non UBC"@en ; edm:dataProvider "DSpace"@en ; dcterms:creator "Kalman-Lamb, Nathan"@en ; dcterms:issued "2010-05-25T17:57:48Z"@en, "2009-12-05"@en ; dcterms:description "Graduate student conference held December 4-5, 2009 at the University of British Columbia. Panel 3: Spectators and Sporting Goods - The Social Psychology and Political Economy of Sports moderated by Guido Schenkel. Abstract: \"In this paper, I interrogate some of the reasons why spectator sport becomes such a compelling form of distraction. To this end, I conceptualize communities of fans as imagined communities along the lines articulated by theorists of nationalism Benedict Anderson, Anne McClintock, and Romila Thapar. I argue that in societies marked by capitalist alienation and isolation, desire for community prompts individuals to turn to the pre-fabricated communities of professional sport. I will attempt to demonstrate how the imagined athletic community functions analogous to other forms of imagined communities through readings of two recent memoirs of fandom: Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch and Bill Simmons’ Now I Can Die in Peace. Both of these texts reveal some of the mechanisms of imagined athletic communities. They also disclose the insidious implications of this form of community: there is always another team that one is better than and opposed to, for by becoming a part of a particular imagined athletic community, one becomes the antagonist of all similar but opposing communities.\" This presentation can be found at 00:44:36 - 01:05:00 in the recording."@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/25035?expand=metadata"@en ; skos:note ""@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0107859"@en ; dcterms:language "eng"@en ; ns0:peerReviewStatus "Unreviewed"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:rights "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"@en ; ns0:rightsURI "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"@en ; ns0:scholarLevel "Graduate"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University of British Columbia. Ideology in motion: on the relationship of sports and politics"@en ; dcterms:title "Fandom at a Fever Pitch: Nick Hornby, Bill Simmons and Imagined Athletic Communities"@en ; dcterms:type "Sound"@en ; ns0:identifierURI "http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25035"@en .