Vanderbilt University communication studies professor John Sloop joins the show to discuss his new book, “Soccer’s Neoliberal Pitch: The Sport’s Power, Profit and Discursive Politics.” Sloop examines soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, and class worldwide. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility and real constraint. If American soccer offers more possibility because of its marginality, looking at how those possibilities are constrained can provide valuable insights into neoliberal logics of power, profit, politics, and selfhood.”
