As much about globalization as it is about football this engaging narrativedemonstrates how the worlds most popular sport has been influenced by a rangeof compl... » 

As much about globalization as it is about football this engaging narrativedemonstrates how the worlds most popular sport has been influenced by a rangeof complex global processes and flows. Researchers teachers and studentsinterested in processes of globalization will find it both very interesting andhighly informative. Those with interests in football and sport will find awealth of conceptual resources and comparative material that should proveinvaluable. Globalization and Football deserves to be widely read and I amconfident it will be Barry Smart Professor of Sociology University ofPortsmouthThis timely book provides an engaging clear view of the interrelationshipswithin key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of globalstudies with the specific cultural conditions of the beautiful gameGiulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion as wellas wider cultural economic political and social dimensions.Using football to chart an increasing global connectivity or globality theauthors explore how the game may be understood as a metric mirror motor andmetaphor of globalizationIssues discussed include Transnational Identities and the Global Civil Society Cosmopolitanism Americanization NeoLiberalism Inequalities and Transnational Clubs Politics Nations and International GovernanceIdeal for students and lecturers concerned with the sociology of sportglobalization and international cultural studies the book will be of interestto anyone keen to map the intricate ways in which transnational processes mayimpact upon particular domains of social life. «