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Overview

David L. Andrews is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a notable concentration in gender studies and sociology and political science. Their work intersects multiple subfields including physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, social psychology, and music.

Andrews's research addresses several key topics related to sports, gender, and society, including:

  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Media Studies and Communication

The scientist has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Annals of Leisure Research
  • Journal of Sport and Social Issues
  • Communication & Sport
  • Media Culture & Society
  • The International Journal of the History of Sport

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Willpower knows no obstacles": Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike's Transnational Advertisements for Women (2022), Communication & Sport
  • The limits of representation activism: analyzing Black celebrity politics in LeBron James' The Shop (2021), Media Culture & Society
  • Remaking recreation: Neoliberal urbanism and public recreation in Baltimore (2020), Cities
  • Green light or black flag? Greenwashing environmental sustainability in Formula One and Formula E (2024), Annals of Leisure Research
  • Regenerating the 'Stock' of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-1903 (2021), The International Journal of the History of Sport

Andrews collaborates frequently with other researchers including Jacob J. Bustad, Brandon Wallace, Damion Sturm, Samuel M. Clevenger, and Adam Beissel. The frequency of collaborations ranges from two to four joint publications with each coauthor.

In addition to journal articles, Andrews has contributed to book publications with several academic publishers. Some of these works include:

  • Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body (2022), published by Rutgers University Press
  • The History and Politics of Motor Racing (2023), part of the Global Culture and Sport series
  • Strategies for Success in Scientific Conferences and Publishing (2024), published by SPIE

The body of work maintained by David L. Andrews reflects a multidisciplinary investigation into cultural, social, and physical dimensions of sport and society, emphasizing intersections of gender, media representation, and sociopolitical issues within these contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Fact(s) of Michael Jordan’s Blackness: Excavating a Floating Racial Signifier

    David L. Andrews

  • Sport stars : the cultural politics of sporting celebrity

    David L. Andrews;Steven J. Jackson

  • Kinesiology's Inconvenient Truth and the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

    David L. Andrews

  • The grobal in the sporting glocal

    David L. Andrews;George Ritzer

  • Desperately Seeking Michel: Foucault’s Genealogy, the Body, and Critical Sport Sociology

    David L. Andrews

  • Toward a Physical Cultural Studies

    Michael L. Silk;David L. Andrews

  • Michael Jordan, Inc. : corporate sport, media culture, and late modern America

    David L. Andrews

  • Coming to terms with cultural studies.

    David L. Andrews

  • Sport―Commerce―Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America

    David L. Andrews

  • East Plays West : Sport and the Cold War

    Stephen Wagg;David L. Andrews

  • Sport and corporate nationalisms

    Michael L. Silk;David L. Andrews;Cheryl L. Cole

  • Beyond a Boundary?: Sport, Transnational Advertising, and the Reimagining of National Culture

    Michael Silk;David L. Andrews

  • Serving America's Underserved Youth: Reflections on Sport and Recreation in an Emerging Social Problems Industry

    Robert Pitter;David L. Andrews

  • Sport and the Façade of Redevelopment in the Postindustrial City

    Michael T. Friedman;David L. Andrews;Michael L. Silk

  • Sport, culture and advertising : identities, commodities and the politics of representation

    Steven J. Jackson;David L. Andrews

  • BETWEEN AND BEYOND THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL American Popular Sporting Culture in New Zealand

    Steven J. Jackson;David L. Andrews

  • Posting Up: French Post-Structuralism and the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Sporting Culture

    David L. Andrews

  • Michel Foucault: studies of power and sport.

    C. L. Cole;Michael D. Giardina;David L. Andrews

  • Manchester United : A Thematic Study

    David L. Andrews

  • Jordanscapes: a preliminary analysis of the global popular.

    David L. Andrews;Ben Carrington;Steven J. Jackson;Zbigniew Mazur

Frequent Co-Authors

George Ritzer
George Ritzer University of Maryland, College Park

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