Beyond Soccer (eBook)

International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game

Tamir Bar-On (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
340 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7544-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This textbook examines the relationships between soccer, politics, and international relations. It uses soccer players and other individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts—such as geopolitics, ideology, and sovereignty—and IR theories—including realism, postcolonialism, and feminism.

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As the world's most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect and impact culture, society, and politics. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game provides students with a new and innovative way to learn about political science and international relations. It uses soccer players, officials, fans, and organizations to teach political science conceptssuch as geopolitics, discourses, and sovereigntyand IR theoriesincluding realism, liberalism, and feminism. This text also incorporates three common soccer discourses to highlight the possibilities of soccer as a tool for unity and social change, as a defender of established power, and as simultaneously a mechanism used by established power and an engine for social resistance.With exercises, discussion questions, and keywords included in each chapter, Beyond Soccer is a worthwhile and accessible educational tool. Primarily written for undergraduate students of all levels, this book will be valuable in political science, international relations, cultural studies, and sociology courses.

Autor

Tamir Bar-On is a researcher and professor in the School of Social Sciences and Government, Tec de Monterrey. He is the author of Where Have All the Fascists Gone? (2007), Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity (2013), and The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Inhalt

Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Theory and International Relations Theories in BriefChapter 2: Realism, Liberalism, and MarxismChapter 3: Constructing Identities: Straddling the Local, National, and GlobalChapter 4: Learning about Postcolonialism through SoccerChapter 5: “You Just Don’t Understand”: A Feminist Reading of the “Beautiful Game” Chapter 6: FIFA, Realism, and Emancipatory IR TheoryChapter 7: Three Competing Soccer DiscoursesChapter 8: The Geopolitics of SoccerChapter 9: Soccer, Sovereignty, and the State of ExceptionConclusionSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 17 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables; - 15 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Constructivism • Cultural impact • cultural impact of soccer • cultural impact of sports • Cultural Studies • Feminism • FIFA • Football • geopolitcs of soccer • geopolitical • Geopolitics • geopolitics of soccer • Ideology • International Relations • IR studies • IR theories • Liberalism • Marxism • Political • Political Science • Politics • politics of sports • Populism • Postcolonialism • Realism • Soccer • soccer and international relations • soccer and politics • soccer discourses • social change • social impact of soccer • Sociology • Sovereignty • Sports
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7544-8 / 1442275448
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7544-7 / 9781442275447