Gaming the world : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture /
Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- xi, 345 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Going global : sports, politics, and identities -- The emergence of global arenas : mapping the globalization of sports cultures between cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and localism -- The transatlantic transfer of sports and their cultures : institutionalization and diffusion -- A silent "feminization" of global sports cultures? women as soccer players in Europe and America -- A counter-cosmopolitan backlash? the politics of exclusion, racism, and violence in European and American sports cultures -- The limits of globalization : local identity and college sports' uniquely American symbiosis of academics and athletics.
Sports and globalization--Europe. Sports and globalization--United States. Nationalism and sports--Europe. Nationalism and sports--United States. Sports--Political aspects--Europe. Sports--Political aspects--United States. Nacionalismo y deportes--Europa. Deportes--Aspectos polĂticos--Europa. Nacionalismo y deportes--Estados Unidos. Deportes--Aspectos polĂticos--Estados Unidos.