To be a global player : sport and Korean developmental nationalisms -- A leveraged playing field : U.S. multiculturalism and Korean athletes -- Playing hard ball : the athletic body and Korean/American masculinities -- Traveling Korean ladies : neoliberalism and the female athlete -- Nation love : the feminized crowds of the Korean world cup -- Home field advantage : race, nation, and transnational media sport in Los Angeles' Koreatown -- Generations connect : discourses of generation and the emergence of transnational youth cultures -- The field of sport and politics
Summary
Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage
