Drawing on an extensive archive of media texts collected between 2014 and 2019, we trace shifting representations of the National Football League in discourse on painkiller use among its players. We argue that in contrast to earlier eras, an image of the league as an exploitative and corrupt institution has come to the fore. Clustered around the announcement of a series of player lawsuits, these discourses are tempered by the persistence of narratives of personal responsibility and the elision of racial logics that predetermine athletes’ subjection to pain and injury. Situating our analysis in the context of the drug wars and the profit motive of the National Football League, we argue that these discourses both reflect and contribute to the workings of racial capitalism across the professional football and pharmaceutical industries.

The interview with professor Samantha King, the author of the famous Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), reveals her current studies within the field of cultural politics of health, sport and the body. Samantha introduces her research group in Queen's University that critically looks at the healthification of market and political processes when social control, inequality and power asymmetry are pursued under the super value of health. She describes how her team uses the genealogical method by M. Foucault to reconstruct the dynamics of historical, ideological, economic, social agendas that shape local judgments about fruitful cultural frames for corporate charity, medicalized performance in professional sport, and painkiller use by people from different social classes. King's Group studies criticize discourses about individual responsibility and good citizenship as those that may welcome getting pills into bodies instead of transforming the economic and social contexts out of which the disease arises. In the interview, Samantha traces the changes in anti-cancer philanthropy in recent years, comments on the political struggles behind the COVID-19 pandemic and points to the the hidden layers of the protein supplements market challenged by the post-humanistic ban on eating animals, emerging laboratory-meat supply, and ecological concern. The interview with Samantha King as well as her scientific articles will be useful for those who reflect on the incorporation of the human body and subjectivity into capitalistic production in different geopolitical realms.

Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообщество о новых актуальных публикациях и исследовательских проектах, а также вовлекать в профессиональное сообщество молодых коллег.Журнал представляет собой специализированное академическое издание.В нём публикуются материалы, отражающие современное состояние экономической социологии и способствующие развитию данной области в её современном понимании.В числе приоритетных тем: теоретические направления экономической социологии, социологические исследования рынков и организаций, социально-экономические стратегии индивидов и домашних хозяйств, неформальная экономика.Также публикуются тексты из смежных дисциплин -неоинституциональной экономической теории, антропологии, экономической психологии и других областей, которые могут представлять интерес для экономсоциологов

From public health policies designed to regulate outdoor exercise for canines and their companions to the booming market in 'pandemic puppies' and 'COVID kittens', multispecies relationships have featured prominently in the organisation of leisure in the viral environment. In what is conventionally understood as a separate set of circumstances, the uneven distribution of COVID-related morbidity and mortality converged with an especially brazen and brutal police killing in the summer of 2020 to place the pernicious character of contemporary racism on the global stage. Here, I analyse these contexts together in order to emphasise how entangled infrastructures of race, as well as class and sex, are fundamental to the regulation and experience of human-animal relationships. I make two main arguments: first, that the 'becoming with' of humans and animals is socially antagonistic, reflecting, reproducing, and sometimes subverting patterns of leisure mobility and access; and second, that multispecies relationships help shape the distribution of risk, harm, and wellness under racial capitalism.

Book Review| August 01 2021 Review: Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture, by Alissa Overend Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture, Alissa Overend, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020 144 pp. Illustrations. $84.00 (hardcover); $39.16 (eBook) Samantha King Samantha King Queen’s University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2021) 21 (3): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.3.107 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samantha King; Review: Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture, by Alissa Overend. Gastronomica 1 August 2021; 21 (3): 107–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.3.107 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search Soon after I began working on this review, I heard an interview with Michael Moss, the prize-winning journalist and author of Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit our Addictions (2021). Moss’s latest exposé claims to reveal how the processed food industry capitalizes upon consumers’ basic evolutionary instincts in order to make them dependent on harmful products. Moss spoke energetically and persuasively about the dubious research, development, and marketing practices that have long defined this industry, but he began to lose me as he returned again and again to his robust supply of definitive soundbites: “Addiction happens in the brain.” “Hunger happens in the brain.” “Sugar and fat hit the brain faster than drugs, cigarette smoke and alcohol.” The list goes on. Prior to reading Alissa Overend’s Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture, I might have found Moss’s claims decontextualized and sensationalist,... You do not currently have access to this content.

The COVID-19 crisis has focused renewed attention on the harms of the present-day meat industry. From debates about zoonotic transmission in factory farms and wild animal markets to outcries over high rates of illness and death among agricultural and food processing workers, the economics and ethics of intensified meat production and consumption are at the fulcrum of public discourse on the virus. Conversations about the more-thanhuman dimensions of COVID-19 highlight a core contradiction for contemporary carnivores: While most strongly disagree with animal cruelty and many treat their companion animals as full-fledged members of the nuclear family, they are collectively eating twice as much meat as they did in 1961. Almost all of this meat is raised in horrific conditions, ‘‘outside of every supposed norm of a life proper’’ (Derrida 2002:394). Moreover, the ‘‘distance and concealment’’ (Pachirat 2011:252) on which industrial animal agriculture has long depended is key to enabling this mass disavowal, a state of affairs that the editors of Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry seek to challenge with the publication of a collection of research on the formation and impact of this gargantuan industry. While the book was released before the virus came to light, it has much to offer readers newly interested in understanding the political economy of industrial meat production and its social and environmental consequences. Noting that ‘‘the expanse of this industry can be difficult to see precisely because of its wide reach’’ (p. 1), the editors seek to map its tentacles at different scales and in a variety of geographic locales. The text includes nine chapters, written largely by U.S.-based contributors, and grew out of a 2017 workshop hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, where one of the editors, Bill Winders, is located. Winders is the author of Grains (2016) and The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy (2009). His collaborator, Elizabeth Ransom, is a professor of International Affairs at Penn State University and coeditor of Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010s (2014). The present book is the sixteenth in MIT Press’s Food, Health, and the Environment series and joins an explosion of writing on the problems and promises of contemporary food systems. Global Meat is divided into three parts, each of which begins with a synthesis of the arguments to follow. Part I contextualizes the global forces shaping this expanding industry, which realized a 500 percent increase in meat production between 1960 and 2016, a rate that far outpaces population growth. Here the focus is on the role of government subsidies in driving corporate concentration and on the size and power of the three biggest firms: Brazil-based JBS, China-based WH Group, and U.S.-based Tyson. A chapter on the vagaries of both intensively managed aquaculture and the fishing of wild stocks rounds out this section. The second part of the book explores how global forces are experienced at the local level through studies of pork production in China, small-scale cattle ranching in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and poultry plant workers in the southeastern United States. The third and final part explores the consequences of the global meat industry through Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry, edited by Bill Winders and Elizabeth Ransom. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 250 pp. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780262537735. 202 Review Essays

In April 2016, TSN (The Sports Network), one of Canada’s most prominent broadcasting stations, aired a documentary miniseries, Radical Play, that describes how European organizations are “harnessing sport to prevent isolated Muslim youth from joining extremist groups.” The documentary focuses on Younes, a 17-year-old refugee in Hamburg, Germany, who has been recruited to participate in a deradicalization program run through a local boxing gym. This article offers a contextualized reading of Radical Play that explores how the problem of radicalization is constructed in the Canadian context, how sport is positioned in relation to deradicalization projects, and how deeply held beliefs about Muslim boys and men are communicated to Canadians through sporting discourses.

This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of healthy bodies, our aim is to connect and extend these vibrant areas of research. We do so by developing the concept of “ecological embodiment,” a descriptor for a fluid state of becoming and a sensibility for thinking about hierarchical socioecological entanglements. To illustrate this concept, we draw on a study of whey protein powder, a key ingredient in contemporary fitness cultures.

For over a century, community health workers (CHWs) have acted as agents of social justice, health care promotion, and change for the underresourced communities they serve and come from. Over 50,000 CHWs are employed in the United States, and this number is growing with the need for CHWs to help fight both the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustice plaguing our nation. Even with many students learning from home, it is crucial that healthcare be integrated into the school system since a child’s health greatly affects their ability to learn. CHWs in schools can help overcome community and cultural barriers to connect families to various community resources and provide important health screenings and education. On return to the traditional classroom, the myriad of tasks such as infection prevention, contact tracing, and temperature screening are not feasible for a school nurse to do alone. CHWs may be just the leaders we need to help schools address the challenges faced in 2020.

This article explores the metabolic lives of whey powder, the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry during the past two decades. Faced with the slippery and elusive properties latent to this multiplicitous substance, our approach is to follow whey powder from its mid-20th century emergence as a noxious byproduct of industrial dairy production, through the human and animal bodies unevenly tasked with its processing, and out into waterways, where its nitrogen density rematerializes as a pollutant. We show how whey powder emerged as a solution to the environmental damage posed by whey pollution, how such damage is an effect of the systematic overproduction endemic to agrofood industries and how whey’s toxicity persists through processes of metabolism and consumption, despite attempts to process and profit from its vital capacities. Throughout, we argue that whey exemplifies ecological embodiment, understood as the co-constitutive relations between bodily matter and ecological life, and their entanglement with processes of commodification.

This collection of commentaries emerged from ongoing conversations among the contributors about our varied understandings of and desires for the sport studies field. One of our initial concerns was with the absence/presence of feminist thought within sport studies. Despite a rich history of feminist scholarship in sport studies, we have questioned the extent to which feminism is currently being engaged or acknowledged as having shaped the field. Our concerns crystallized during the spirited feminist responses to a fiery roundtable debate on Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) in New Orleans in November 2012. At that session, one audience member after another spoke to what they saw as the unacknowledged appropriation by PCS proponents of longstanding feminist—and feminist cultural studies—approaches to scholarship and writing. These critiques focused not just on the intellectual moves that PCS scholars claim to be making but on how they are made, with several audience members and some panelists expressing their concerns about the territorializing effects of some strains of PCS discourse.

Background: In the past decade, OxyContin diversion and misusehave been firmly established in Ontarian public discourse as serious problems requiring major intervention. This article contextualizes and theorizesthe processes through which the marketing of the prescription opioid and its subsequent problematization occurred. Theanalysis refuses the impossible choice between the 'deserving pain patient' and the 'undeserving addict,' between the war on pain and the war on drugs, and between a notion of OxyContin as either miracle panacea or destructive poison. Rather than falling in step with these binaries, OxyContinis theorized across them, or multiply, with the aim of moving beyond established moral and theoretical registers for exploring embodied consumption.Methods: This discursive study is based on a broad range of texts collected between 2009-2013: Hansard reports from the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; newspaper, magazine, and internet coverage of OxyContin; and policy documents, research reports, and position papers and news releases produced by government agencies, advocacy organizations, professional bodies, think tanks, tribal councils, and law enforcement agencies.Results: Pharmaceutical industry and state actors have attempted to dualistically parse disparate materializations of OxyContin, a tactic that intensified as media pressure helped produce the notion of a public health crisis and, implicitly, a crisis of welfare dependence. By focusing on the (impossible) task of stratifying proper from improper use, the drug's advocatessought to secure the integrity of opioid painkillers and to protect their materialization as vehicles for maintaining a body that is normal, stable, and in control, as opposed to a body of excess that threatens to expose the consumerist logic of contemporary medicine.Conclusion: Attempts to contain the multiplicity of OxyContin result in the further entrenchment of privatized and individualized approaches to pain and painkilling and serve to undermine rather than secure public health and safety. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a dependency on Vicodin, as well as the latest rash of confessions of misuse by now retired athletes. We argue that these coconstructed and coconstructing moments of noise and silence are part of the same discursive system. This system serves to structure the emerging preoccupation with painkillers in the NFL, with Favre’s admission still working to placate anxieties surrounding the broader drug problems endemic to the league, and failing to disrupt our implicit knowingness about painkiller use, thus reinforcing ongoing cultures of silence and toughness in professional football.

The recent problematization of opioid use among National Football League players presents an opportunity for scholars to rethink conventional approaches to drugs in sport, and to incorporate into their analyses a consideration of medically authorized substances. Such an undertaking may help illuminate the social dimensions of painkilling and the contextual complexity that fades from view in seemingly compassionate media portrayals of the struggles of former players who are living in pain and dependent on drugs. It may also offer new insights into more established traditions of research on cultures of drug use in sport.