ABSTRACT
In attempting to theorize the relationships between power and sport, North American sport scholars have applied a wide range of diverse writings including those by Louis Althusser, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, bell hooks, Jacques Derrida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Paul Gilroy, Antonio Gramsci, Elizabeth Grosz, Stuart Hall, C.L.R. James, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, C.Wright Mills, Charles Mills, Gayatri Spivak, Max Weber, and Raymond Williams. Close inspection of these applications reveals that specific historical moments give rise to different debates and understandings of power, and indeed particular understandings of power have been ascendant at various times within sport studies scholarship.
