Global Sport

Identities, Societies, Civilizations

Joseph Maguire (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1999
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1532-5 (ISBN)

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A path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalization. Develops an original theoretical perspective on sport and globalization, drawing on the work of Elias and others to develop a five-stage model of the emergence and global diffusion of modern sport.

Joseph Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University and President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.

Preface. Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes.

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues:.

1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process.

2. Globalisation, Process Sociology and Cross-Cultural-Civilisation Analysis.

3. Globalisation, Civilising Offensives and Sportization Processes.

4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control.

Part II: The Globalisation of Sport and its Consequences.

5. Global Trails, Migrant Labour and Elite Sport Cultures.

6. The Sports Industry, Global Commodity Chains and Sustainable Sport.

7. The Global Media-Sport Complex.

8. Global Sport, Identity Politics and Patriot Games.

Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties - Towards a Global Sports Culture or the Globalisation of Sports?.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.7.1999
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 229 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1532-5 / 0745615325
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1532-5 / 9780745615325
Zustand	Neuware