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Globalised Football - Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream (Hardcover, New)
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Globalised Football - Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream (Hardcover, New)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five
major aspects of globalisation processes become evident:
international migration, the global flow of capital, the
syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary
culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in
information technologies. In an exploration of these themes the
collection provides insight into academic studies of football in
Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique,
China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. At examining
football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and
migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, it shows how
modernised football itself is object and subject in processes of
both neo-liberal globalisation and counter hegemonic globalisation.
While the contributions highlight characteristics of particular
local and national contexts, the volume focuses on global
centre-periphery-relations and migration trajectories of football
professionals by analysing recent developments in post-colonial
Portuguese speaking areas: The high ranking of "Portuguese
football" not only serves in national(ist) discourses or in order
to emancipate the country from a marginal position, it also turns
Portugal into a football-talent exporter, confronting it partly
with the same ambiguous consequences as Brazil and the African
countries, who "lose" their football talents to the European
centre. The receiving countries, again, include Portugal. This book
was previously published as a special issue of Soccer in Society
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