Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains

ISBN-13: 9780815396680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 146 str.

Souvik Naha

Opis

This book is a multidisciplinary exploration into the development of modern sporting culture from global and transnational history perspectives. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: ‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport Souvik Naha 2. Playing on the border: sport, borderlands and the North Atlantic, 1850–1950 Colin D. Howell and Daryl Leeworthy 3. The intercultural transfer of football: the contexts of Germany and Argentina Thomas Adam 4. Sport transfer over the channel: elitist migration and the advent of football and ice hockey in Switzerland Christian Koller 5. With or without cricket? The two lives of the English game in a decolonizing India Souvik Naha 6. Did South America foster European football?: transnational influences on the continentalization of FIFA and the creation of UEFA, 1926–1959 Philippe Vonnard and Grégory Quin 7. ‘Yes to Football, No to Torture!’ The politics of the 1978 Football World Cup in West Germany Felix A. Jiménez Botta 8. Learning in landscapes of professional sports: transnational perspectives on talent development and migration into Danish women’s handball around the time of the financial crisis, 2004–2012 Sine Agergaard 9. We’re all transnational now: sport in dynamic sociocultural environments David Rowe

O autorze

Souvik Naha has a PhD in History from the ETH Zurich. His research has been published in journals such as　International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport in Society, Soccer & Society, Sport in History, Economic and Political Weekly, as well as in various edited volumes. He is currently a guest lecturer in History at West Bengal State University, India, and the book review editor of Soccer & Society.