Resumen de The Limits to �NASCAR Nation�: Sport and the �Recovery Movement� in Disjunctural Times

Joshua I. Newman, Adam S. Beissel

• This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport�s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both �local� and �global.� It also briefly illustrates the problematic nature of recent initiatives to sell historically localized NASCAR commodities to �nontraditional� national and international markets.