Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age by Niko Be... - 9781138390652

Taylor & Francis

Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal AgeAuthor(s): Niko Besnier, Domenica Gisella Calabr, Daniel Guinness\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138390652, 978-1138390652\nSynopsis\nThis ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North.\n\nNeoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in conjunction with television and corporate sponsors. Neoliberal sport has had other important effects, which are rarely the object of attention: as the national economies of the Global South and local economies of marginal areas of the Global North have collapsed under pressure from global cap.