Giulianotti

Globalization and Sport

Herausgeber: Giulianotti, Richard; Robertson, Roland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. The book is the first of its kind to feature major critical interventions by some of the world's leading social scientists on the subject of sport. The collection contains articles by Roland Robertson and Richard Giulianotti, George Ritzer and David Andrews, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, William Kelly, Barry Smart, Frank Lechner, Chris Rumford, and Gary Armstrong. The chapters provide a mixture of original theories and fresh research material, examining sport in a diversity of settings, including Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in globalization processes or sport. It will appeal to students and academics across disciplines, notably in sociology, anthropology, sport studies, cultural studies, political science, and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781405162692
• ISBN-10: 1405162694
• Artikelnr.: 22949427

Autorenporträt

Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Durham University. Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology and Global Society at the University of Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sport and Globalization: Transnational Dimensions: RichardGiulianotti and Roland Robertson.

2. Not Playing Around: Global Capitalism, Modern Sport andConsumer Culture: Barry Smart.

3. The Grobal in the Sporting Glocal: David L. Andrews andGeorge Ritzer.

4. Steps to an Ecology of Transnational Sports: Thomas HyllandEriksen.

5. Recovering the Social: Globalization, Football andTransnationalism: Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.

6. Is Baseball a Global Sport? America's 'NationalPastime' as Global Field and International Sport: William W.Kelly.

7. More Than a Game: Globalization and the Post-Westernizationof World Cricket: Chris Rumford.

8. Imagined Communities in the Global Game: Soccer and theDevelopment of Dutch National Identity: Frank J. Lechner.

9. The Global Footballer and the Local War-Zone: George Weah andTransnational Networks in Liberia, West Africa: Gary Armstrong

Rezensionen

"The most intriguing parts of the book are where historical details of specific sports--cricket, soccer, Gaelic football, hurling, speed skating, baseball--are offered as evidence for the essayists' arguments on how the local interacts with outside forces, whether protecting, mimicking or influencing." (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, May 2009)