Beyond soccer : international relations and politics as seen through the beautiful game / Tamir Bar-On.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bar-On, Tamir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Social aspects.

International relations.

International relations and culture.

Soccer--Political aspects.

Soccer.

Physical Description:

xx, 319 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Summary:

As the world's most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect one! 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 (IR). It uses soccer players, officials, fans, and organizations to reach political science concepts-such as geopolitics, discourses, and sovereignty-and IR thories-including 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, IR, cultural studies, and sociology courses. Book jacket.

Contents:

Theory and ir theories in brief

Realism, liberalism and Marxism

Constructing identities : straddling the local, national and global

Learning about postcolonialism through soccer

"You just don't understand!" : a feminist reading of the "beautiful game"

FIFA, emancipatory IR theory and a critique of realism

Three competing soccer discourses

The geopolitics of soccer

Soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bar-On, Tamir, author. Beyond soccer

ISBN:

9781442275423

1442275421

9781442275430

144227543X

OCLC:

979567543