Tamir Bar-On

Beyond Soccer

International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook examines the relationships between soccer, politics, and international relations. It uses soccer players and other individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts-such as geopolitics, ideology, and sovereignty-and IR theories-including realism, postcolonialism, and feminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 709g
• ISBN-13: 9781442275423
• ISBN-10: 1442275421
• Artikelnr.: 47881584

Autorenporträt

By Tamir Bar-On

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Theory and International Relations Theories in Brief Chapter 2: Realism
Liberalism
and Marxism Chapter 3: Constructing Identities: Straddling the Local
National
and Global Chapter 4: Learning about Postcolonialism through Soccer Chapter 5: "You Just Don't Understand": A Feminist Reading of the "Beautiful Game" Chapter 6: FIFA
Realism
and Emancipatory IR Theory Chapter 7: Three Competing Soccer Discourses Chapter 8: The Geopolitics of Soccer Chapter 9: Soccer
Sovereignty
and the State of Exception Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index About the Author