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Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age by Niko Besnier, Domenica Gisella Calabrò, Daniel Guinness, Daniel Guiness is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North. Neoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in conjunction with television and corporate sponsors. Neoliberal sport has had other important effects, which are rarely the object of attention: as the national economies of the Global South and local economies of marginal areas of the Global North have collapsed under pressure from global capital, many young people dream of pursuing a sport career as an escape from poverty. But this elusive future is often located elsewhere, initially in regional centres, though ultimately in the wealthy centres of the Global North that can support a sport infrastructure. The pursuit of this future has transformed kinship relations, gender relations, and the subjectivities of people. This collection of rich ethnographies from diverse regions of the world, from Gha

Who reads Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age?

Author

Niko Besnier, Domenica Gisella Calabrò, Daniel Guinness, Daniel Guiness

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138390645

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Sociology