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Sports Global Influence: A Survey of Society and Culture in the Context of Sport
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015.
Evolving sport cultures have had the dual capacity of both illuminating the inner human experience while also connecting this experience to outer socio-economic institutional practices. The unique chapters of this book capture the processes that define this simultaneous centripetal and centrifugal motion of sport such the opportunity sport can provide for social change in a community, out to the bigger debates of global marketing and state legitimacy that accrue from sport. Stock discourses on sport such as sport commodification, mediatization, instrumentalization; social and physical capital of sport; and the rope of sport in the contours of geo-politics and international diplomacy are explored both in their theoretical framing and also in specific scenarios and locations. The collection of works span from Qatar to South Africa, the United States to England and provides a modern look at sport’s interdisciplinary shape in the global context of society and culture.
Evolving sport cultures have had the dual capacity of both illuminating the inner human experience while also connecting this experience to outer socio-economic institutional practices. The unique chapters of this book capture the processes that define this simultaneous centripetal and centrifugal motion of sport such the opportunity sport can provide for social change in a community, out to the bigger debates of global marketing and state legitimacy that accrue from sport. Stock discourses on sport such as sport commodification, mediatization, instrumentalization; social and physical capital of sport; and the rope of sport in the contours of geo-politics and international diplomacy are explored both in their theoretical framing and also in specific scenarios and locations. The collection of works span from Qatar to South Africa, the United States to England and provides a modern look at sport’s interdisciplinary shape in the global context of society and culture.
Dr. Skye G. Arthur-Banning is an Associate Professor at Clemson University, USA. While his primary research agenda focuses on sport as a tool for development, currently his research and writing is devoted to improving youth sport and grassroots adaptive sport programs in the US and Abroad. Dr. Arthur-Banning has worked on various programming and sportsmanship projects, and has published in many of the nation’s leading Parks and Recreation journals.
Solomon Waliaula is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Maasai Mara University, Kenya. His doctoral research and subsequent post-doctoral research have been based on the play between oral performance cultures and mediatization of sport in East Africa.
Solomon Waliaula is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Maasai Mara University, Kenya. His doctoral research and subsequent post-doctoral research have been based on the play between oral performance cultures and mediatization of sport in East Africa.