Kyle Kusz
Kinesiology
Rhodes University
United States of America
Biography
Author of Revolt of The White Athlete – Intersections in Communications and Culture, Kusz is an expert on the intersection between sport, media, and contemporary cultural politics. He has a particular, interest in the ways in which sporting discourses, sport-related films, sporting celebrities, and sporting cultures operate as political terrains where particular ideas about race, gender, class, and nation are created, disseminated, and popularized as common sense by agents of the status quo.
Research Interest
athletics, kinesiology, politics, services, social and gender issues in sports
Publications
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Kusz KW. Standing in the need: culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina.
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Kusz KW. Remasculinizing American white guys in/through new millennium American sport films. Sport in Society. 2008 Mar 1;11(2-3):209-26.