Globalization and Sport » (New Edition)

Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Durham University.

Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology and Global Society at the University of Aberdeen.

Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. The book is the first of its kind to feature major critical interventions by some of the world’s leading social scientists on the subject of sport. The collection contains articles by Roland Robertson and Richard Giulianotti, George Ritzer and David Andrews, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, William Kelly, Barry Smart, Frank Lechner, Chris Rumford, and Gary Armstrong.

The chapters provide a mixture of original theories and fresh research material, examining sport in a diversity of settings, including Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia.

The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in globalization processes or sport. It will appeal to students and academics across disciplines, notably in sociology, anthropology, sport studies, cultural studies, political science, and international relations.

1. Sport and Globalization: Transnational Dimensions: Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.

2. Not Playing Around: Global Capitalism, Modern Sport and Consumer Culture: Barry Smart.

3. The Grobal in the Sporting Glocal: David L. Andrews and George Ritzer.

4. Steps to an Ecology of Transnational Sports: Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

5. Recovering the Social: Globalization, Football and Transnationalism: Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson.

6. Is Baseball a Global Sport? America’s ‘National Pastime’ as Global Field and International Sport: William W. Kelly.

7. More Than a Game: Globalization and the Post-Westernization of World Cricket: Chris Rumford.

8. Imagined Communities in the Global Game: Soccer and the Development of Dutch National Identity: Frank J. Lechner.

9. The Global Footballer and the Local War-Zone: George Weah and Transnational Networks in Liberia, West Africa: Gary Armstrong