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Recovering the social: globalization, football and transnationalism
journal contribution
posted on 2014-08-12, 08:41 authored by Richard GiulianottiRichard Giulianotti, Roland RobertsonIn this article, we place the social and football (as a sporting realm) at the heart of social scientific analysis of globalization processes. Our theoretical framework sets out, in turn, the concepts of glocalization, with particular reference to what we term the 'duality of glocality'; transnationalism, notably its socio-historical aspects; connectivity, with particular reference to its antonym, 'disconnectivity'; and cosmopolitanism, with strong focus on what we term its 'thick' and 'thin' variants. We explore the interplay of these concepts and processes within three broad domains of the 'football world': supporter subcultures, sport journalism, and Japanese football culture. We conclude in part by arguing for greater exploration of sport's role in regard to global processes and of the interrelationships between the duality of glocality and the thick/thin variants of cosmopolitanism.
Funding
UK ESRC award number R000239833.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Global NetworksVolume
7Issue
2Pages
166 - 186Citation
GIULIANOTTI, R. and ROBERTSON, R., 2007. Recovering the social: globalization, football and transnationalism. Global Networks, 7 (2), pp. 166-186.Publisher
© the authors (typography © Blackwell and Global Networks)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2007Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: GIULIANOTTI, R. and ROBERTSON, R., 2007. Recovering the social: globalization, football and transnationalism. Global Networks, 7 (2), pp. 166-186, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2007.00163.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.ISSN
1470-2266eISSN
1471-0374Publisher version
Language
- en