Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture Paperback - 2013
by Andrei S. Markovits; Lars Rensmann
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"I am thrilled to have read this book because it discusses what I am most passionate about: sports and how their very existence, with soccer as a major contributor, have helped shape history on a global scale. As a player, fan, and ambassador of soccer, I am beyond pleased that the authors give my sport its due. Every soccer person, sports fan, and scholar of sports must read this book."--Brandi Chastain, Olympic gold and silver medalist, Women's World Cup champion
"For those of us turning to the sports page of our daily paper first, here is the book we have been waiting for. Gaming the World offers an up-to-date analysis of the capitalist dreamscape of an important leisure industry. Transformed by globalization, exposed to local and national backlash, marked by American and European exceptionalisms, and rife with symbolic politics, Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann argue, we are what we play--contaminated cosmopolitans in a global civilization still tethered to our local and national roots. What fun!"--Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
"This is an exciting book full of stimulating observation and wondrous detail. It illustrates convincingly the central role of sports in our contemporary cultural complex, highlighting their globalizing and cosmopolitan potential but also their national and local reference. The authors bring home their many powerful arguments through a stunning range of evidence."--Modris Eksteins, University of Toronto
"This is a valuable, stimulating, and illuminating book that offers an ambitious, intellectually substantial, analytically sophisticated, and constantly thought-provoking consideration of an important subject. The authors convincingly link their analysis of sports to big questions about the contours, dynamics, and continuing inner tensions of modernity. They also make their subject come alive for the reader. You don't need to be a sports fan to find this book engrossing and enlightening."--Jeff Weintraub, University of Pennsylvania
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- Title Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
- Author Andrei S. Markovits; Lars Rensmann
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 362
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2013-12-01
- ISBN 9780691162034 / 0691162034
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.483
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