{"product_id":"collective-chaos-1","title":"Collective Chaos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA view into the continuing evolution of the niche-yet-global sport through the historical lens of Ohio Roller Derby, one of the founding leagues of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\nPart sports autobiography, part cultural critique, this book offers the collective experience of a tenacious group of nontraditional athletes who play, officiate, plan, schedule, market, and manage the business of a (mostly) women’s amateur sports team. \u003cbr\u003e\nThis modern sport, with its alternative, punk rock culture, is often a place for those who’ve struggled within the mainstream. But even as the sport is often home for historically marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ+ community, roller derby organizations and participants often mirror and experience the same inequities as those in the world surrounding them. In a full-contact, theatrical sport that some consider revolutionary, the authors show that gaining truly radical self-knowledge is an ongoing, difficult process that requires love, teamwork, discipline, critical consideration of one’s local and global societies, and—above all else—one’s place and action within them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Samantha Tucker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574387966134,"sku":"9780804041195","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804041195.jpg?v=1727083882","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/collective-chaos-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}