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Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age (Hardcover)
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Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age (Hardcover)
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This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has
permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around
the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into
marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing
athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North.
Neoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport
clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in
conjunction with television and corporate sponsors. Neoliberal
sport has had other important effects, which are rarely the object
of attention: as the national economies of the Global South and
local economies of marginal areas of the Global North have
collapsed under pressure from global capital, many young people
dream of pursuing a sport career as an escape from poverty. But
this elusive future is often located elsewhere, initially in
regional centres, though ultimately in the wealthy centres of the
Global North that can support a sport infrastructure. The pursuit
of this future has transformed kinship relations, gender relations,
and the subjectivities of people. This collection of rich
ethnographies from diverse regions of the world, from Ghana to
Finland and from China to Fiji, pulls the reader into the lives of
men and women in the global sport industries, including aspiring
athletes, their families, and the agents, coaches, and academy
directors shaping athletes' dreams. It demonstrates that the ideals
of neoliberalism spread in surprising ways, intermingling with
categories like gender, religion, indigeneity, and kinship.
Athletes' migrations provide a novel angle on the global workings
of neoliberalism. This book will be of key interest to scholars in
Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sport Studies, and Migration Studies.
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