Gaming the World How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

Name: Gaming the World How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
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ISBN: 9780691137513

ISBN-10: 069113751X

ISBN-13: 9780691137513

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann

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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.33" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction: Going Global-Sports, Politics, and Identities



The Emergence of Global Arenas: Mapping the Globalization of Sports Cultures between Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Localism



The Transatlantic Transfer of Sports and their Cultures: Institutionalization and Diffusion



A Silent "Feminization" of Global Sports Cultures? Women as Soccer Players in Europe and America



A Counter-Cosmopolitan Backlash? The Politics of Exclusion, Racism, and Violence in European and American Sports Cultures



The Limits of Globalization: Local Identity and College Sports' Uniquely American Symbiosis of Academics and Athletics


Conclusion


List of Acronyms


Index