Globalization and sport / edited by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2007Description: viii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1405162694
- 9781405162692
- Globalisation and sport
- Global networks (Oxford, England)
- 306.483 22
- GV706.34 .G56 2007
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.483 GLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A424515B |
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306.483 GEM Understanding American sports / | 306.483 GEN Gender, media, sport / | 306.483 GIA Sporting pedagogies : performing culture & identity in the global arena / | 306.483 GLO Globalization and sport / | 306.483 GLO Globalised football : nations and migration, the city and the dream / | 306.483 GLO Global perspectives on sport and physical cultures / | 306.483 GRI Sport politics : an introduction / |
"First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sport and globalization : transnational dimensions / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- 2. Not playing around : global capitalism, modern sport and consumer culture / Barry Smart -- 3. The grobal in the sporting glocal / David L. Andrews and George Ritzer -- 4. Steps to an ecology of transnational sports / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- 5. Recovering the social : globalization, football and transnationalism / Richard Giulianoti and Roland Robertson -- 6. Is baseball a global sport? : America's ' national pastime' as global field and international sport / William W. Kelly -- 7. More than a game : globalization and the post-Westernization of world cricket / Chris Rumford -- 8. Imagined communities in the global game : sustainable soccer and the development of Dutch national identity / Frank J. Lechner -- 9. The global footballer and the local war-zone : George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong.
This collection places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. It features major critical interventions by some of the world's leading sociologists and anthropologists on the subject of sport.
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