Gaming the world : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture /
Markovits, Andrei S.
Rensmann, Lars.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sports and globalization
Sports and globalization
Nationalism and sports
Nationalism and sports
Sports
Sports