TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giulianott,Richard
AU  - Robertson,Roland
TI  - Globalization and sport
SN  - 1405162694
AV  - GV706.34 .G56 2007
U1  - 306.483 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Malden, MA, Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Publishing
KW  - Nationalism and sports
KW  - Sports and globalization
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007028744-b.html
ER  -