Globalization and sport : playing the world

Toby Miller ... [et al.]

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 together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.

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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 together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.

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[目次]

  • Introduction Why This Book? The 'G-Word' Meets the 'S-Word' National Symbolism and the Global Exchange of Sporting Bodies Sports Media sans Fronti[gr]eres Citizens of the World The Governance of Sport Conclusion Global Sport and Cultural Labour

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[目次]

  • Introduction Why This Book? The 'G-Word' Meets the 'S-Word' National Symbolism and the Global Exchange of Sporting Bodies Sports Media sans Fronti[gr]eres Citizens of the World The Governance of Sport Conclusion Global Sport and Cultural Labour

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書名 Globalization and sport : playing the world
著作者等 Lawrence, Geoffrey
McKay, Jim
Miller, Toby
Rowe, David
Lawrence Professor Geoffrey A.
Miller Trish
出版元 Sage Publications
刊行年月 2001
ページ数 160 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0761959688
0761959696
NCID BA51964195
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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