{"product_id":"9781932698640","title":"Cabinet 56: Sports","description":"\u003cp\u003eAthletic contests are nearly as old as human society itself. They have grown and flourished across the millennia and around the world, and today form the basis of a global industry worth in excess of six hundred billion dollars. And such games are not just for the players: audiences' fascination with sports also make them a productive sphere through which to consider questions of spectatorship, tribalism and belonging. \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e 56, with a special section on \"Sports,\" includes Leland de la Durantaye on the new geometries of tennis; Carla Wing on squash and the colonial history of rubber; and Hal Foster on the ritualistic dimensions of soccer. Elsewhere in the issue: Adam Jasper on how homes built by freed slaves in Liberia mimicked the Palladian style of US plantation mansions; Augusto Corriere on the disassembly and reassembly of a Munich theater during World War II; Carol Mavor on the aesthetics of middleness; and more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabinet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040290128112,"sku":"9781932698640","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781932698640_p0.jpg?v=1763639904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932698640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}