Globalization and Sport - Toby Miller, Geoffrey A Lawrence, Jim McKay, David Rowe

Globalization and Sport

Playing the World
Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2001
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7619-5969-4 (ISBN)
74,80 inkl. MwSt
Globalization and Sport argues that although sport is a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of public sector physical education, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations.
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires.



This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization. The sports process draws together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.

Toby Miller is a British-Australian-US interdisciplinary social scientist. He is the author and editor of over 30 books, has published essays in more than 100 journals and edited collections, and is a frequent guest commentator on television and radio programs. His teaching and research cover the media, sports, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy, as well as the success of Hollywood overseas and the adverse effects of electronic waste. Miller′s work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, German, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese. He has been Media Scholar in Residence at Sarai, the Centrefor the Study of Developing Societies in India, Becker Lecturer at the University of Iowa, a Queensland Smart Returns Fellow in Australia, Honorary Professor at the Center for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, CanWest Visiting Fellow at the Alberta Global Forum in Canada, and an International Research collaborator at the Centre for Cultural Research in Australia. David Rowe is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the Universty of Newcastle in Australia. He is the co-editor of Power Play (1986) and Sport and Leisure (1990), and co-author of Contemporary Australian Television (1994). He has published on cultural studies, popular culture, sport and leisure studies in a wide range of journals including Media, Culture and Society, Cultural Studies, Leisure Studies and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues.

Introduction
Why This Book?
The `G-Word′ Meets the `S-Word′
National Symbolism and the Global Exchange of Sporting Bodies
Sports Media sans Fronti[gr]eres
Citizens of the World
The Governance of Sport
Conclusion
Global Sport and Cultural Labour

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.3.2001
Verlagsort Thousand Oaks
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Fußball
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7619-5969-6 / 0761959696
ISBN-13 978-0-7619-5969-4 / 9780761959694
Zustand Neuware
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