Gaming the world
Subtitle: how sports are reshaping global politics and culture
By: Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann
Contributors: Rensmann, Lars
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780691137513
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Going global : sports, 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: A counter-cosmopolitan backlash? the politics of exclusion, racism, and violence in European and American sports cultures; title: The limits of globalization : local identity and college sports' uniquely American symbiosis of academics and athletics.