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Globalization and sport / edited by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: viii, 144 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781405162692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405162694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Global networks (Oxford, England)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.4/83 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.34 .G56 2007
Other classification:
  • 76.10
  • MS 6540
Contents:
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.
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"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.

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