Sport Tourism, Cityscapes and Cultural Politics

Through analysis of the relative power and capacity of particular groups to physically contour, carefully orchestrate, and proffer meanings about the regeneration of downtown cityspaces, we offer a critical interrogation of two poignant exemplars of cities that have responded to the spatial logic of accumulation through the creation of sport-anchored tourist bubbles. Through questioning these lascivious representations of urban life, we offer a suggestive conclusion that calls for a meaningful and productive critical sport tourism that is: anchored within the cross-currents of contemporary social analysis; operates as an element of the cultural terrain within a wider cultural politics; and that, necessarily, is interdisciplinary, addresses the most pressing social problems, and produces an oppositional and progressive politics.