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Soccer, Globalization, and Innovation: The Beautiful Game in the 21st Century [Kõva köide]

Edited by (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Edited by (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 264 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 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: 03-Oct-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032939036
  • ISBN-13: 9781032939032
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 264 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 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: 03-Oct-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032939036
  • ISBN-13: 9781032939032
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, AI, greenwashing, and sport-for-development. The book features case studies from around the world, including the US, Brazil, Türkiye, Finland, England, Spain, Japan, Morocco, Uruguay, and South Africa, and opens up new theoretical perspectives on soccer as a vector of social development and on the intersection of sport and globalization.

This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport management, sport development, soccer, political science, or global development.
1.Soccer, Globalization, and Innovation: The Beautiful Game in the 21st
Century. 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 Re-duce Carbon Emissions from Team and Fan Travel.
Kirk Bowman is 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 Michgan 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.