Globalization and Sport
Playing the World
David Rowe author Toby Miller author Jim McKay author Geoffrey A Lawrence author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Published:19th Mar '01
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- Hardback£180.00(9780761959687)
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.
"...Globalization and Sport is soundly researched and well-written. I found this book as gripping as a best-selling novel. I would recommend this book as essential reading for both undergraduates and postgraduates as well as for researchers in sociology of sport." -- Elizabeth Rose * Sport, Education and Society *
ISBN: 9780761959694
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 260g
168 pages