Globalization and Sport

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Globalization and Sport is written by Toby Miller and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761959696 (ISBN 10) and 9780761959694 (ISBN 13).

Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization.