The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport

Joseph Maguire is Professor Emeritus at Loughborough University, UK. He is a two–term former President of the International Sociology of Sport Association. Katie Liston is Senior Lecturer in the Social Sciences of Sport at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. Mark Falcous is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

1. Introduction: Mapping the Global Sports Sphere (Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous).- 2. Globalization and Sport: Reflections and Projections (Alan Tomlinson).- 3. ‘Weaponizing’ the Commodity Chain: Sport Anthropology and Globalization (Alan Klein).- 4. Getting to the Uber-Sport Assemblage (David L. Andrews).- 5. Sport, Globalization and the Modern World: Zones of Prestige and Established-Outsider Relations (Joseph Maguire).- 6. The Challenges of Sport and Globalization (David Rowe).- 7. Globalization or Coloniality? Delinking from the Roving Colonialism of Sport Mega-Events (Heather Sykes).- 8. China, Sport and Globalization (Susan Brownell).- 9. Globalization, Ideology, and Sport (Michael D. Giardina, Tarlan Chahardovali and Joshua L. Newman).- 10. Globalization, Sport and Gender Relations (Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire).- 11. Transnational Perspectives on Sport, Globalization and Migration (Sine Agergaard).- 12. Globalization and the Economics of Sport Business (Hans Westerbeek).- 13. Economic Globalization of the Sports Industry (Wladimir Andreff).- 14. Financial Fair Play: Problematization in men’s professional football (Stephen Morrow).- 15. Global Mediasport: Contexts, Texts, Effects (Mark Falcous).- 16. Greening and Cleaning World Football: The Environment, Clientelism And Media Failure (Toby Miller).- 17. Mediating Contested Narratives of the Globalization of Sport: the case of surfing (Douglas Booth).- 18. Gianni Infantino and using ‘the power of football’ to make a troubled globalized world ‘a more peaceful place’? (Peter J. Beck).- 19. Origin and Global Spread of the German Form of Physical Culture: Gymnastics and Turnen (Annette R. Hofmann and Michael Krüger).- 20. Diasporas in Sport: Networks, Nostalgia and the Nuances of Dwelling (Janelle Joseph).- 21. Militarized Civic Ritual: Pentagon, Police, and U.S. Professional Football (Kimberly S. Schimmel).- 22. Globalized Sport and Development from a Commonwealth Perspective (Cora Burnett).- 23. Voices from the South: Emerging Sport and Development Trends on the Global Policy Agenda (Marion Keim and Christo De Coning).- 24. Levelling the Playing Field: Investing in Grassroots Sports as the Best Bet for Sustainable Development (Ben Sanders and Jay Coakley).- 25. The Role of Sport in Refugee Settlement: Definitions, Knowledge Gaps and Future Directions (Ramón Spaaij, Jora Broerse, Sarah Oxford and Carla Luguetti).- 26. The Paradox of Sport for Development: Evangelism and a Call for Evidence (Fred Coalter).- 27. Revisiting Sport-for-Development through Rights, Capabilities and Global Citizenship (Simon Darnell, Tavis Smith and Catherine Houston).- 28. Sport Governance, Democracy and Globalization (Lucie Thibault).- 29. Ethical Governance and the Olympic Movement (Bruce Kidd).- 30. Sport, Globalization and Democracy (Grant Jarvie).