Globalization and sport
By: edited by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.
Contributors: Giulianott, Richard.; Robertson, Roland.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405162692
Subjects: Sports and globalization; Nationalism and sports
Other titles: Global networks (Oxford, England)
Notes: "First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sport and globalization : transnational dimensions / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson; title: Not playing around : global capitalism, modern sport, and consumer culture / Barry Smart; title: The grobal in the sporting glocal / David L. Andrews and George Ritzer; title: Steps to an ecology of transnational sports / Thomas Hylland Eriksen; title: Recovering the social : globalization, football, and transnationalism / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson; title: Is baseball a global sport? : America's national pastime as global field and international sport / William W. Kelly; title: More than a game : globalization and the post-westernization of world cricket / Chris Rumford; title: Imagined communities in the global game : soccer and the development of Dutch national identity / Frank J. Lechner; title: The global footballer and the local war-zone : George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong.