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1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Sport, migration, and gender in the neoliberal age -- Contextualizing global sport migrations -- Sport migrations, gender, and social relations -- The future is now: new ways of being and relating -- Conclusion: sport, migration, and gender in the neoliberal age -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I Neoliberal sport and social relations -- 2 Benevolent hosts, ungrateful guests: African footballers, hospitality and the sports business in Istanbul |
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African migration to Turkey -- Brokerage revisited -- Enjoyment or employment? -- Benevolent hosts, ungrateful guests -- The drama of Turkish multiculturalism -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 3 "This is business!": Ethiopian runners in a global marketplace -- Two ideologies of "chance" -- "Not a single word": The ideology of silent submission and deserving -- Chasing chance -- Small races, small money -- "All Ethiopian females need a male pacemaker" -- From conversion to adaptation -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References |
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4 Labouring athletes, labouring mothers: Ethiopian women athletes' bodies at work -- Production and reproduction, public and private -- Running between the lines -- Ethiopia's place in neoliberal sport -- Going "outside" -- Labours of love -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 From liberation to neoliberalism: Race, mobility, and masculinity in Caribbean cricket -- Mobility and the changing meaning of Caribbean cricket -- Trinidad, cricket leagues, and overseas athletes -- Guyanese athletes in Trinidad: Material and symbolic possibilities beyond cricket |
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Foreignness and the valuation of Guyanese in Trinidad -- Masculine anxiety and the "stealing" of Trinidadian women -- Guyanese cricketers return home: Aspirations and dreams reassessed -- Conclusion: Caribbean cricket at multiple spatial and temporal scales -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 Friendship, respect, and success: Kenyan runners in Japan -- Maendeleo: Neoliberal logics and communal worldview -- Foundations of respect, friendship, and success -- Knowing when to step back -- Dreams of success -- "Just shut up" -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References |
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7 Neoliberalism, masculinity, and social mobility in Chinese tennis -- State-supported sport and the neoliberal sport sector -- The transnational tennis system, social mobility, and gender -- Five male professional tennis players -- Duelling sports developmental models and masculinities -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Part II Reconstituting subjectivities -- 8 Fijian Rugby wives and the gendering of globally mobile families -- Rugby's construction of gendered spaces -- The aspirations of rugby "wives" -- Christian faith and sinful husbands -- Creating new communities in France |
| Summary |
"The intersection of sport, mobility, and gender gives a lens through which this collection of ethnographic chapters explore the effects of neoliberalism on the life projects of athletes in the Global South, examining gender relations, the dynamics of neoliberal sport and the way these redefine social relations. Neoliberalism has reconfigured the sport industries since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have now become for-profit businesses, in conjunction with television and sponsoring corporations. Neoliberal sport has had other important effects, which are rarely the object of attention: as the national economies of the Global South 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, in the wealthy economies of the Global North that are able to support a sport infrastructure. The pursuit of this future has transformed kinship relations, social structures, and the subjectivities of people as they seek to take advantage of new global opportunities. This collection of rich ethnographies from diverse regions of the world, from Ghana to Finland and from China to Fiji, pulls the reader into the lives of young men and women who strive to migrate and break into professional sport to bring economic security to families, villages, and neighbourhoods. It shows that the ideals of neoliberal spread in surprising ways and how athletes' migrations provide a novel angle on the workings of neoliberalism around the world. This book will be of key interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sport Studies and Migration Studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012-17, he directed the ERC-funded project titled "Globalization, Sport, and the Precarity of Masculinity" (GLOBALSPORT), which inspired this edited volume. With Susan Brownell and Thomas F. Carter, he coauthored The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (2018), which has been translated into French, Spanish, and Japanese. His other works have focused on sexuality and gender, globalization, precarity, and language. Domenica Gisella Calabrò holds a Ph. D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Messina, Italy, and is currently discipline coordinator and lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. Her research has focused on indigeneity, sportand gender in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is now also involved in research on gender-based violence in the Pacific Islands. Daniel Guinness holds a D. Phil. in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. His interests are in the changing social relations and performances of masculinities in the context of globalized neoliberal labour markets, particularly those involving sporting migration. He has undertaken ethnographic field research in Fiji, Argentina, and Europe |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2020) |
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Sports -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
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Athletes -- Developing countries
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Sports and globalization.
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Neoliberalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Athletes
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Neoliberalism
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Sports and globalization
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Sports -- Economic aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Besnier, Niko, editor.
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Calabrò, Domenica Gisella, editor.
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Guinness, Daniel, 1984- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020034437 |
| ISBN |
9780429751509 |
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0429751508 |
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9780429751516 |
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0429751516 |
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9780429751493 |
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0429751494 |
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9780429423277 |
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0429423276 |
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