Globalization and Sport: Playing the World

by David Rowe (Author), Geoffrey Lawrence (Author), Toby Miller (Author), Jim McKay (Author), Geoffrey Lawrence (Author), David Rowe (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $69.87

  Globalization and Sport argues that although sport is a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of public sector physical education, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations.