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Globalization is a key part of everyday lives, and sport itself is an increasingly global phenomenon. This book successfully brings the two together, locating the study of sports policy within a broader consideration of global processes, practices and consequences.
Drawing upon a range of empirical case studies, Catherine Palmer successfully illuminates issues that have not previously been discussed. Exploring the relationship between the local and the global, globalization and governance, new technologies, human rights, environment and corporate responsibility, the author sets out the ground for a new and refreshed understanding of policy making in sport and how this affects society moreover.
Original and timely, this book is a must for sports students on all levels. It will also be of immense use for students on courses that deal with public and social policy making.
The Local and the Global in Sports Policy
The Local and the Global in Sports Policy
This Chapter
- introduces key debates and concepts concerning ‘the local’ and ‘the global’;
- provides a framework of flows and frames for understanding global sports policy;
- describes the limits and inequalities of globalization;
- offers multicultural policy in relation to London 2012 and Australian Rules football as a case study.
Introduction
Tensions between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ have long been features of debates about globalization and sport. As Miller et al. note, ‘sport is both intensely local – we support “our team,” and we go to the local gym, and very distanced; we watch that local side on a TV network owned by a foreign company’ (2001: 1). The nexus where the global meets the local remains ...
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