TY - JOUR

T1 - Sport and globalization

T2 - Power games and a New World order

AU - Gems, Gerald R.

AU - Pfister, Gertrud Ursula

N1 - CURIS 2014 NEXS 426

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - The authors describe, analyze and evaluate sport related globalization processes with a focus on transnationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and, more generally, geopolitical developments. They provide a variety of theoretical frameworks as they explore the emergence of modern sport and its dissemination around the world. In spite of resistance by the adherents of gymnastics or traditional movement cultures, sport with its focus on competition and records became popular all over the world. Both Great Britain and the United States induced their political and cultural hegemony via the soft power of modern sport which caused reactions, e.g. resistances or adaptations of indigenous, colonized, and other affected populations.

AB - The authors describe, analyze and evaluate sport related globalization processes with a focus on transnationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and, more generally, geopolitical developments. They provide a variety of theoretical frameworks as they explore the emergence of modern sport and its dissemination around the world. In spite of resistance by the adherents of gymnastics or traditional movement cultures, sport with its focus on competition and records became popular all over the world. Both Great Britain and the United States induced their political and cultural hegemony via the soft power of modern sport which caused reactions, e.g. resistances or adaptations of indigenous, colonized, and other affected populations.

KW - Geopolitics

KW - Globalization

KW - McDonaldization

KW - Sport

KW - Transnationalism

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006022108&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1051/sm/2013062

DO - 10.1051/sm/2013062

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85006022108

VL - 2014

SP - 51

EP - 60

JO - Science et Motricite

JF - Science et Motricite

SN - 2118-5735

IS - 86

ER -