Globalization and Sport: Playing the World - Softcover

Miller, Trish; Lawrence, Geoffrey A.; McKay, Jim; Rowe, David; Miller, Toby

 
9780761959694: Globalization and Sport: Playing the World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761959696 ISBN 13: 9780761959694
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

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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 t

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

TOBY MILLER is Professor Emeritus in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA and author of many books including Technologies of Truth (1998) and The Avengers (1997).

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761959696
ISBN 13 
9780761959694
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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