Gaming the world
Subtitle: how sports are reshaping global politics and culture
By: Andrei S. Markovits and Lars Rensmann.
Contributors: Rensmann, Lars.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691137513
Subjects: Sports and globalization -- Europe; Sports and globalization -- United States; Nationalism and sports -- Europe; Nationalism and sports -- United States; Sports -- Political aspects -- Europe; Sports -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Going globalsports, politics, and identities; title: The emergence of global arenas : mapping the globalization of sports cultures between cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and localism; title: The transatlantic transfer of sports and their cultures : institutionalization and diffusion; title: A silent "feminization" of global sports cultures? women as soccer players in Europe and America; title: "Counter-cosmopolitan" backlash? the politics of exclusion, racism, and violence in European and American sports culture; title: The limits of globalization : local identity and college sports. uniquely American symbiosis of academics and athletics.