{"product_id":"globalization-and-sport-playing-the-world-9780761959687","title":"Globalization and Sport: Playing the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Trish\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Popular Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common \u003ci\u003elingua franca\u003c\/i\u003e of passions, obsessions and desires.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously 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 physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization. The sports process draws t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45457316053143,"sku":"9780761959687","price":16861.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780761959687.webp?v=1769293238","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/globalization-and-sport-playing-the-world-9780761959687","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}