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Globalization and Football
This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.
Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, economic, political and social dimensions.
Using football to chart an increasing global connectivity, or globality, the authors explore how the game may be understood as a metric, mirror, motor and metaphor of globalization
Issues discussed include:
- Transnational Identities and the Global Civil Society,
- Cosmopolitanism & Americanization,
- Neo-Liberalism, Inequalities and Transnational Clubs,
- Politics, Nations, and International Governance,
Ideal for students and lecturers concerned with the sociology of sport, globalization and international cultural studies - the book will be of interest to anyone keen to map the intricate ways in which transnational processes may impact upon particular domains of social life.
Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, economic, political and social dimensions.
Using football to chart an increasing global connectivity, or globality, the authors explore how the game may be understood as a metric, mirror, motor and metaphor of globalization
Issues discussed include:
- Transnational Identities and the Global Civil Society,
- Cosmopolitanism & Americanization,
- Neo-Liberalism, Inequalities and Transnational Clubs,
- Politics, Nations, and International Governance,
Ideal for students and lecturers concerned with the sociology of sport, globalization and international cultural studies - the book will be of interest to anyone keen to map the intricate ways in which transnational processes may impact upon particular domains of social life.
217 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Richard Giulianotti
29 books1 followerRichard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures.
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July 21, 2018
Really good. Generative. Layed out some helpful thinking categories. I came away from the book with a list of inquiry questions to explore in my own reading and writing.
Interesting to read this nine years after its publication. Some spot-on predictions, and obviously misses. But Giulianotti and Robertson have an accurate sociological vision. I implicitly trust them.
Given that this work is an academic piece of sociological research, I'll never read it for the sparkling prose, which feels like a transparent skein for concepts and phenomenon. At least I'm getting the hang of reading works like this.
Interesting to read this nine years after its publication. Some spot-on predictions, and obviously misses. But Giulianotti and Robertson have an accurate sociological vision. I implicitly trust them.
Given that this work is an academic piece of sociological research, I'll never read it for the sparkling prose, which feels like a transparent skein for concepts and phenomenon. At least I'm getting the hang of reading works like this.
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