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Gaming the World How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
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Title
Gaming the World [electronic resource] : How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture / Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann.
ISBN
140083466X
9781400834662
069113751X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691137513 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 345 p. )
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
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.
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