Handbook

In this unit, you will examine sport within wider global, economic, political and geographic contexts. You will investigate how rudimentary community games morphed into global sport and sport businesses fuelled by industrialization, capital accumulation, advances in transport and increased leisure time. You will explore the role of sport and major sporting events in shaping the geographies of Australian and international cities and their local communities. You will interrogate the power of financial, political and cultural power of sporting organizations, business, industry and the media and how they impact ‘glocal’ agendas and refashioning cityscapes. You will explore how Melbourne and other post-industrial cities have reinvented themselves through sport as global sporting centres  in an age when sport is spectacle and the stadium a theatre of capitalist consumption.