Globalization and sport /
Globalization and sport /
edited by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- viii, 144 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sport and globalization : transnational dimensions / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Not playing around : global capitalism, modern sport, and consumer culture / Barry Smart -- The grobal in the sporting glocal / David L. Andrews and George Ritzer -- Steps to an ecology of transnational sports / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Recovering the social : globalization, football, and transnationalism / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Is baseball a global sport? : America's national pastime as global field and international sport / William W. Kelly -- More than a game : globalization and the post-westernization of world cricket / Chris Rumford -- Imagined communities in the global game : soccer and the development of Dutch national identity / Frank J. Lechner -- The global footballer and the local war-zone : George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong.
9781405162692 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405162694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007028744
Sports and globalization.
Nationalism and sports.
Aufsatzsammlung.
GV706.34 / .G56 2007
306.4/83
"First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sport and globalization : transnational dimensions / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Not playing around : global capitalism, modern sport, and consumer culture / Barry Smart -- The grobal in the sporting glocal / David L. Andrews and George Ritzer -- Steps to an ecology of transnational sports / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Recovering the social : globalization, football, and transnationalism / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Is baseball a global sport? : America's national pastime as global field and international sport / William W. Kelly -- More than a game : globalization and the post-westernization of world cricket / Chris Rumford -- Imagined communities in the global game : soccer and the development of Dutch national identity / Frank J. Lechner -- The global footballer and the local war-zone : George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong.
9781405162692 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405162694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007028744
Sports and globalization.
Nationalism and sports.
Aufsatzsammlung.
GV706.34 / .G56 2007
306.4/83