Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Globalisation, power, and established-outsider relations -- Civilisational encounters and global processes -- Final remarks -- Part I Local-global nexus -- 1 'Making touchdowns and hoop dreams' -- Transnational corporations, global sport and cultural identities -- Theorising the local-global sports nexus -- From touchdowns to hoop dreams: US sports in the UK market -- Sports space: the NFL and NBA within the UK -- Changing conjunctural dynamics: from enterprise culture to 'coolBritannia'? -- Contested 'space' in the commercial sports market -- The peripheral sports space of basketball -- 'Race', basketball and local-global consumption -- Conclusion -- 2 'Back to the Valley' -- Sport, the city and globalisation -- Topophilia and the football stadium -- Leaving the Valley -- The beginning of fan activism (1986-1988) -- Re-purchase of the Valley: decision time (1988-1989) -- Planning permission refused: political activism during 1990 -- Permission granted: the final hurdles (1991-1992) -- Return to the Valley (December 1992) -- Conclusion -- Part II Lived experiences -- 3 'Cricketers of the empire' -- Sport labour migration research revisited -- Cricket, cash crops, mercenaries and emancipation -- The development of labour migration in English county cricket -- The structure of international labour migration in English county cricket -- Host and donor country attitudes to migration into county cricket -- The motivations and experience of migrant players -- Migration and English county cricket in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- 4 'In league together'? -- Sport, the media, and global cultural flows -- Australia: the background to the creation of European Super League -- Plans, negotiations and unintended outcomes -- Phase one: April 1995 - shock, horror and resistance.

Phase two: May-October 1995 - adaptation and consolidation -- Phase three: November 1995-October 1996 - honeymoon over -- Phase four: October 1996-May 1997 - hope and revival -- Phase five: June-December 1997 - defeat, despair and receivership -- Phase six: January 1998 - another new beginning? -- Conclusion -- Part III Identity politics -- 5 'A world in union'? -- National identity and issues of habitus -- Sport, identity politics and national habitus codes -- Rugby union, national identity and Ireland -- History and tradition in Irish rugby -- Rugby, Irish identity politics, and the representatives of the nation -- National symbols, flags, and anthems -- National stereotyping and playing styles -- Conclusion -- 6 'Not the Germans again' -- Anglo-German identity politics, habitus codes and 'national character' -- Old scores, new games: 'them' versus 'us' -- 'Sweet revenge': exorcising national habitus memories -- The war of the words revisited -- Who mentioned the war? -- What the English victory meant, and revealed -- Conclusion -- Part IV Sporting futures -- 7 'Civilised Games'? -- The Olympics, the media, politics and identities -- US media and political reaction to the Beijing bid for the 2008 Olympic Games -- Conclusion -- 8 The sports-industrial complex -- The global state of play - performance efficiency and the quest for success -- Reconfiguring sports science: fundamental science, involved advocacy and committed service -- Fundamental science -- Involved advocacy -- Committed service -- Conclusion: human development and new sport worlds -- References -- Index.

Sport has changed. Traditions and territorial distinctions are dissolving as a result of new global, political, economic and cultural conditions. The team of authors examine these changes, investigating the power relations that govern the new global sport and assessing the consequences for the future of sport. The book is founded on a series of case studies, linked by a common process-sociological approach, and is divided into four sections - each dealing with an important aspect of sport and globalization: * the local-global nexus - how global sports processes are played out at the level of local communities * lived experiences - the reality of global sport for players and supporters * identity politics - the impact of global sport on national consciousness * sporting futures - the emergent political, economic and cultural forces that are shaping global sport, and their implications for its development. The text introduces new approaches to the study of sport and globalization, updating and extending Maguire's previous work, and is therefore an essential resource for all those working in this fast-changing area.

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