This is a very interesting book, unusual and clearly relevant to many people's lives
especially those who are not sports fans but are surrounded by them. Tarver explores how sports and our relations to sports and communities of teams and fans shape our social world more broadly
a very important issue, well worth philosophical attention. I know of no other text that ... Read morebrings Foucault to bear on sports culture. There is really nothing like this in the literature.
Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond [A] detailed account of how sports fandom creates and reproduces identity in contemporary (principally American) society.... Players will be practicing through the dog days of summer. Fans should stay busy, too
we have some important preseason reading to do.
Chronicle of Higher Education The I in Team is an impressive and careful piece of scholarship. Although the book will be of greatest immediate interest to people working in the philosophy of sport, its import goes beyond disciplinary boundaries. The book makes a significant, original, and much needed contribution to feminist philosophy. . . . Erin C. Tarver has done a fine job of uncovering the oppressive ills of mascotting and sketching the outline of an alternative feminist model of sports fandom.
Hypatia Reviews Given that spectator sports are both massively popular and a major source of identity for fans, The I in Team demonstrates why we ought to take them far more seriously.
Times Higher Education The I in Team takes up a timely and important
and interesting
topic. It aims to understand sports fandom in relation to social identity, most saliently race, gender, and economic condition. In so doing, it illuminates controversial contemporary phenomena like our debates around racialized sport iconography
team names like 'Redskins'
and a majority white society's peculiar and ambivalent investments in black male athletes. This is a book I'd want to teach and to read.
Paul C. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University Show Less