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Watching the Web: Sport and Globalisation Webliography
Gretchen Ghent
Definition: Globalisation as a set of forces that produce a complex and irresistible system of world economic, political and cultural interdependence
(Ref: Sport and Globalisation, In, Andrew Yiannakis, Merrill J. Melnick, eds, Contemporary Issues in sociology of sport, p. 443, Champaign,IL: Human Kinetics, 2001)
SPORTDISCUS
With Fulltext (a subscription based service for research in the sport sciences) A search of this database using subject terms, sports and globalisation found over 300 references. Other searches are more specific, e.g. soccer and globalisation, baseball and globalisation… Below is a sample of two articles:
Darnell, Simon C. Power, Politics and "Sport for Development and Peace": Investigating the Utility of Sport for International Development.
Sociology of Sport Journal, v27, no1, March 2010, p. 54-75
Available in PDF format
Harvey, Jean; Horne, John & Safai, Parissa, Alterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation Through Sport.
Sociology of Sport Journal, v26, no3, Sept 2009, p. 383-403
Available in PDF format
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Open access
Martin, Mathew C. The Globalization of Soccer: A Look at the Growth of the World’s Game and its Current Condition in the United States, (Presented at the Conference on Globalisation and Sport In Historical Context, University of California, San Diego, March 2005)
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/UCSD/UCSDMartin.pdf
YaleGlobal Online A Publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalisation
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/
A search box on this website can lead users to many items on sports and globalisation
Globalisation of Soccer Kicks Local Fans by
Kanishk Tharoor, a managing editor and writer for openDemocracy.net.
Reprinted with permission from Yale Global Online.
© 2008 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
http://www.globalenvision.org/content/globalization-soccer-kicks-local-fans
Taylor, Mathew, Football, Migration and Globalisation: the Perspective of History
(Online essay 14 March 2007)
www.idrottsforum.org/articles/taylor/taylor070314.html
See this website for other resources on aspects of sport and globalisation.
ONLINE VIDEO
Branko Milanovic, (Lead Economist, World Bank)
Globalisation and Goals: Does Soccer Show the Way, 1/29/2004
Duration : 65 minutes
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?EID=530&PID=1022
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS – Restricted Access
Restricted Access on ebrary – Academic Complete (a subscription-based service, mainly to libraries for access to eBooks – online books)
Klein, Alan M.
Growing the game: the globalization of major league baseball
Yale University Press, c2006.
Amis, John, Global sport sponsorship
Berg, 2005.
Restricted Access on NetLibrary, (a subscription-based service, mainly to libraries for access to eBooks and eAudioBooks)
Tomlinson, Alan, National identity and global sports events: culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup
State University of New York Press, c2005.
Researched by
Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus
University of Calgary Library
Calgary, Canada
Email: gghent@ucalgary.ca

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