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Global Sport

Autor Joseph Maguire
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 1999
A path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalization. Develops an original theoretical perspective on sport and globalization, drawing on the work of Elias and others to develop a five-stage model of the emergence and global diffusion of modern sport.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745615325
ISBN-10: 0745615325
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Polity Press
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

second and third year undergraduates and postgraduates in sociology, media and cultural studies, social history and geography, and students on courses in sport and leisure at Higher Education colleges and universities

Cuprins

Preface.

Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes.

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues:.

1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process.

2. Globalisation, Process Sociology and Cross-Cultural-Civilisation Analysis.

3. Globalisation, Civilising Offensives and Sportization Processes.

4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control.

Part II: The Globalisation of Sport and its Consequences.

5. Global Trails, Migrant Labour and Elite Sport Cultures.

6. The Sports Industry, Global Commodity Chains and Sustainable Sport.

7. The Global Media-Sport Complex.

8. Global Sport, Identity Politics and Patriot Games.

Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties - Towards a Global Sports Culture or the Globalisation of Sports?.

Bibliography.

Index.


Notă biografică

Joseph Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University and President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.