Access Type
Open Access Dissertation
Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Kelly Young
Abstract
This dissertation argues how Detroit’s spaces of sport consumption rhetorically configure the city’s identity. Specifically, this project interrogates the city’s sports spaces and argues how they anchor identity in the following ways: through the production of accessible discourses, through the emphasis on certain discourses and the de-emphasis of other discourses, through the regulation, control and biopower of the city’s sports spaces and their rhetorical effect on Detroit’s identity, and through the creation of distinct public memories produced from these discourses.
Recommended Citation
Cavaiani, Anthony C., "Detroit's Sport Spaces And The Rhetoric Of Consumption" (2015). Wayne State University Dissertations. 1307.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1307