Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Going Global—Sports, Politics, and Identities 1
5. Chapter 2. The Emergence of Global Arenas: Mapping the Globalization of Sports Cultures between Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Localism 43
6. Chapter 3. The Transatlantic Transfer of Sports and their Cultures: Institutionalization and Diffusion 107
7. Chapter 4. A Silent “Feminization” of Global Sports Cultures? Women as Soccer Players in Europe and America 157
8. Chapter 5. A Counter-Cosmopolitan Backlash? The Politics of Exclusion, Racism, and Violence in European and American Sports Cultures 207
9. Chapter 6. The Limits of Globalization: Local Identity and College Sports’ Uniquely American Symbiosis of Academics and Athletics 271
10. Conclusion 316
11. List of Acronyms 327
12. Index 331