Globalization and sport
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Globalization and sport
Blackwell, 2007
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  United States of America
Note
"First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes.
Features major critical interventions by some of the world's leading sociologists and anthropologists on the subject of sport
Contributors include George Ritzer, David Andrews, Frank Lechner, William Kelly, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Barry Smart, Paul James, Chris Rumford and Gary Armstrong
Provides a mixture of original theories and fresh research material, examining sport in a diversity of settings, including Europe, the Americas, Australasia, Africa and Asia
Essential reading for anyone interested in globalization processes or sport
Table of Contents
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 Giulianotti 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: 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
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