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Gaming the world : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture

Title
Gaming the world : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture / Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
Author
Markovits, Andrei S.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Rensmann, Lars.
Description
xi, 345 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 10-5851
ISBN
  • 9780691137513 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 069113751X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010006187
OCLC
YBP 2010006187
Author
Markovits, Andrei S.
Title
Gaming the world : how sports are reshaping global politics and culture / Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
Imprint
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Rensmann, Lars.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-5851
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