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E-raamat: Soccer, Globalization, and Innovation: The Beautiful Game in the 21st Century [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

Edited by (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Edited by (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Formaat: 237 pages, 13 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Critical Research in Football
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003568162
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Formaat: 237 pages, 13 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Critical Research in Football
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003568162
This is the first book to focus on innovation as a response to globalization in soccer in the context of the global development of the worlds most popular sport.

Concentrating on social innovation and on innovations in governance and organization in soccers traditional heartlands and also at its global periphery, the book explores some of the most important contemporary themes in the social scientific study of sport, including fandom, activism, gender, governance, new media, artificial intelligence, greenwashing, and sport-for-development. The book features case studies from around the world, including the United States, Brazil, Türkiye, Finland, England, Spain, Japan, Morocco, Uruguay, and South Africa, and it opens new theoretical perspectives on soccer as a vector of social development and on the intersection of sport and globalization.

This is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport management, sport development, soccer, political science, or global development.
1. Introduction.
2. Innovation and the Beautiful Game.
3. Soccer as
Civil Society.
4. A Movement for Dignity: Humiliation, Migration, and
Transnational Solidarity in the Moroccan Ultras Scene.
5. Shifting the Game:
Soccer Feminist Fandom Activism as a Catalyst for Sporting Innovation in
Brazil.
6. When Passionate Soccer Fans Participate in a Social Movement:
Çar in the Gezi Movement in Istanbul (2013, Turkey).
7. The StationSoccer
Social Innovation: Overcoming U.S. Youth Soccers Transportation Barrier.
8.
Soccer for Good in Joensuu: Navigating Finlands New Diversity.
9.
Partnerships with Soccer Clubs, Data, and Training Women Analysts: The Case
of Pink Codrs Africa and Kaizer Chiefs FC.
10. Hitting the Net: How Womens
Soccer Scored Big Online.
11. Critical Junctures, Path Dependency, and the
Rise and Future Challenges of US Womens Soccer.
12. Who Decides? Artificial
Intelligence and Soccer.
13. Innovation in Uruguayan Football.
14. The Causes
and Consequences of the Americanization of the Beautiful Game in Europe.
15.
Environmental Sustainability, Greenwashing, and Innovative Solutions to
Reduce Carbon Emissions from Team and Fan Travel.
Kirk Bowman is a professor and Regents Entrepreneur in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of four books and co-produced six feature-length documentary films in Brazil. Kirk has conducted soccer and politics fieldwork in eighteen countries and has a forthcoming book on soccer and global politics.

John B. Boyd is a PhD candidate at Michigan State University in cultural anthropology, focusing on North Africa and its diaspora. His research interests include youth and social movements, urban anthropology, the intersection of sport and society, and football and football fandom in North Africa.