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Transnational sport : gender, media, and global Korea / Rachael Miyung Joo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joo, Rachael Miyung, 1975-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Social aspects--Korea.
- Sports.
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Nationalism and sports--Korea.
- Nationalism and sports.
- Nationalism and sports--United States.
- Mass media and sports--Korea.
- Mass media and sports.
- Mass media and sports--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613523587
- 9781280119507
- 1280119500
- 9780822393429
- 0822393425
- OCLC:
- 777266526
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