Gaming the World 1st edition by Andrei Markovits, Lars Rensmann 140083466X 9781400834662

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ISBN-10 :  140083466X 

ISBN-13 :  9781400834662

Author :  Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann 

The globalizing influence of professional sports Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice. 

Gaming the World 1st Table of contents:

Chapter1 Introduction: Going Global—Sports, Politics, and Identities
Chapter 2 The Emergence of Global Arenas: Mapping the Globalization of Sports Cultures between Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Localism
Chapter 3 The Transatlantic Transfer of Sports and their Cultures: Institutionalization and Diffusion
Chapter 4 A Silent “Feminization” of Global Sports Cultures? Women as Soccer Players in Europe and America
Chapter 5 A Counter-Cosmopolitan Backlash? The Politics of Exclusion, Racism, and Violence in European and American Sports Cultures
Chapter 6 The Limits of Globalization: Local Identity and College Sports’ Uniquely American Symbiosis o

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