Global Sport
Identities, Societies, Civilizations
1. Edition July 1999
256 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7456-1532-5
John Wiley & Sons
In his major new work, Joseph Maguire develops a path-breaking account of sport in a global context, examining the changing nature of sport in relation to globalisation.
Preface.
Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes.
Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues:.
1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process.
2. Globalisation, Process Sociology and
Cross-Cultural-Civilisation Analysis.
3. Globalisation, Civilising Offensives and Sportization
Processes.
4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control.
Part II: The Globalisation of Sport and its
Consequences.
5. Global Trails, Migrant Labour and Elite Sport Cultures.
6. The Sports Industry, Global Commodity Chains and Sustainable
Sport.
7. The Global Media-Sport Complex.
8. Global Sport, Identity Politics and Patriot Games.
Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties -
Towards a Global Sports Culture or the Globalisation of
Sports?.
Bibliography.
Index.
Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes.
Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues:.
1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process.
2. Globalisation, Process Sociology and
Cross-Cultural-Civilisation Analysis.
3. Globalisation, Civilising Offensives and Sportization
Processes.
4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control.
Part II: The Globalisation of Sport and its
Consequences.
5. Global Trails, Migrant Labour and Elite Sport Cultures.
6. The Sports Industry, Global Commodity Chains and Sustainable
Sport.
7. The Global Media-Sport Complex.
8. Global Sport, Identity Politics and Patriot Games.
Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties -
Towards a Global Sports Culture or the Globalisation of
Sports?.
Bibliography.
Index.
"Sport has become a central interest of people's lives in the
modern world; Joe Maguire's lively book shows that it is now
equally central to sociology, and that sociologists have something
to say that will interest the general reading public." Stephen
Mennell, University College, Dublin
"Basing his arguments and analyses largely on a judicious use of
the theories of Elias, Joseph Maguire succeeds in Global
Sport in shedding new and original light on this important but
neglected aspect of globalization. Not least among the merits of
his path-breaking text are the ways in which he shows, first, that
globalization, including the globalization of sport, is far from
being the recent development that many people take it to be, and
second, that this process deserves far more attention than it has
received up to now. Global Sport is an excellent book which
deserves to sell very well." Eric Dunning, University of
Leicester
modern world; Joe Maguire's lively book shows that it is now
equally central to sociology, and that sociologists have something
to say that will interest the general reading public." Stephen
Mennell, University College, Dublin
"Basing his arguments and analyses largely on a judicious use of
the theories of Elias, Joseph Maguire succeeds in Global
Sport in shedding new and original light on this important but
neglected aspect of globalization. Not least among the merits of
his path-breaking text are the ways in which he shows, first, that
globalization, including the globalization of sport, is far from
being the recent development that many people take it to be, and
second, that this process deserves far more attention than it has
received up to now. Global Sport is an excellent book which
deserves to sell very well." Eric Dunning, University of
Leicester
Joseph Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University and President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.