Global Sport: Identities, Societies, Civilizations

Introduction: Sports, Local Cultures and Global Processes.

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues:.

1. Theorizing Sport in the Global Process.

2. Globalisation, Process Sociology and Cross-Cultural-Civilisation Analysis.

3. Globalisation, Civilising Offensives and Sportization Processes.

4. The Global Sports Formation: Meaning, Power and Control.

Part II: The Globalisation of Sport and its Consequences.

5. Global Trails, Migrant Labour and Elite Sport Cultures.

6. The Sports Industry, Global Commodity Chains and Sustainable Sport.

7. The Global Media-Sport Complex.

8. Global Sport, Identity Politics and Patriot Games.

Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties - Towards a Global Sports Culture or the Globalisation of Sports?.

Bibliography.

Index.