Global sport : identities, societies, civilizations / Joseph Maguire
- Bib ID:
- 190316
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maguire, Joseph A., 1956-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999
- 239p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0745615317 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- 0745615325 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes
- Pt. I. Conceptual and Theoretical Issues. 1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process. 2. Globalization, Process Sociology and Cross-cultural-Civilizational Analysis. 3. Globalization, Civilizing Offensives and Sportization Processes. 4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control
- Pt. II. The Globalization 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 Sport Culture or the Globalization of Sports?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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- Copyright:
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