Global Sport

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1532-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

In his major new work, Joseph Maguire develops a path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maguire, Joseph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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