Examines the key processes and structures that have underpinned the globalization of sport, from the emergence of a global sport power elite and the erosion of folk body cultures to the emphasis on the athlete as machine.
Examines the key processes and structures that have underpinned the globalization of sport, from the emergence of a global sport power elite and the erosion of folk body cultures to the emphasis on the athlete as machine.
'Sport has changed. Traditions and territorial distinctions are dissolving as a result of new global, political, economic and cultural conditions. The team of authors examine these changes, investigating the power relations that govern the new global sport and assessing the cons…
This book provides a critical analysis of rugby union in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in the game. Through focusing on key figures and important events it traces the turbulent development of a game steeped in an amateur etho…
"In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union"--
Rugby union and globalization: an odd-shaped world
This book provides a critical analysis of rugby union in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in the game. Through focusing on key figures and important events it traces the turbulent development of a game steeped in an amateur etho…
"In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union"--
This book provides a critical analysis of rugby union in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in the game. Through focusing on key figures and important events it traces the turbulent development of a game steeped in an amateur etho…
Zirin widens his remit to take a hard look at the trends now shaping sports in the United States and abroad, including an analysis of the 2006 World Cup.
Globalized sport as savage spectacle and "opium of the people"
Barbaric sport: a global plague
