The History and Politics of Motor Racing

1. Introduction.- SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT. 2. ‘The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory.- 3. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship.- SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING - 4. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich.- 5. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport&nbsp;.- 6. ‘The Fascist Race Par Excellence’: Fascism and the Mille Miglia.- 7. Vargas, Perón and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism.- SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - 8. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947.- 9. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti.- SECTION IV: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER.- 10. It Was Ironic He Should Have Died in Bed: Racing Drivers, Masculinity and the Politics of Safety.- 11. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing.- 12. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The ‘Grid Girls’ issue.- SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE - 13. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africa’s Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 1934–1993.- 14. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCAR’s Wendell Scott.- 15. Can the Formula One Driver Speak? Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete.- SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY - 16. Formula One as Television.- 17. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1.- 18. ‘Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars’: Motor Racing on Film.- 19. ‘Who D’You Think You Are? Stirling Moss?’ British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity:&nbsp; 1896 to 1992.- 20. ‘The star in the car’: Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture.- 21. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game.- 22. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One.- SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING - 23. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle.- 24. Circuits of Capital: The Spatial Development of Formula One Racetracks.- 25. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China:&nbsp;State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai.- 26. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku.- 27. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf.- 28. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix?.- 29. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation.<br>