Globalization and sport : playing the world / Toby Miller ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2000.Description: 192pISBN:- 9780761959687 (hbk.) :
- 9780761959694 (pbk.) :
- 0761959696 (pbk.)
- 306.483 MIL
- GV706
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306.483 CAS Making sense of sports / | 306.483 HOU Sport and society : a student introduction / | 306.483 KEW Sport : social problems and issues / | 306.483 MIL Globalization and sport : playing the world / | 306.483 ROW Sport, culture and the media : the unruly trinity / | 306.483 SCA Sport and society : history, power and culture / | 306.483 WOO Social issues in sport / |
Includes bibliographical references.
The authors argue that whilst sport plays an important role in the process of globalisation and generates wealth, typically commodification, bureaucratisation and ideology are fundamental to the organisation of sporting cultures around the world.