Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age

Herausgeber: Besnier, Niko; Guinness, Daniel; Calabrò, Domenica Gisella

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The intersection of sport, mobility, and gender gives a lens through which this collection of ethnographic chapters explore the effects of neoliberalism on the life projects of athletes in the Global South, examining gender relations, the dynamics of neoliberal sport and the way these redefine social relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138390645
• ISBN-10: 113839064X
• Artikelnr.: 60001755

Autorenporträt

Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012-17, he directed the ERC-funded project titled "Globalization, Sport, and the Precarity of Masculinity" (GLOBALSPORT), which inspired this edited volume. With Susan Brownell and Thomas F. Carter, he coauthored The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (2018), which has been translated into French, Spanish, and Japanese. His other works have focused on sexuality and gender, globalization, precarity, and language. Domenica Gisella Calabrò holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Messina, Italy, and is currently discipline coordinator and lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. Her research has focused on indigeneity, sport and gender in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is now also involved in research on gender-based violence in the Pacific Islands. Daniel Guinness holds a D.Phil. in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. His interests are in the changing social relations and performances of masculinities in the context of globalized neoliberal labour markets, particularly those involving sporting migration. He has undertaken ethnographic field research in Fiji, Argentina, and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Sport, Mobility, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age;
Neoliberal Sport and Social Relations;
2. Benevolent Hosts, Ungrateful Guests: African Footballers, Hospitality
and the Sports Business in Istanbul;
3. "This is Business!": Ethiopian Runners in a Global Marketplace;
4. Labouring Athletes, Labouring Mothers: Ethiopian Women Athletes' Bodies
at Work;
5. From Liberation Cricket to Neoliberal Cricket: Race, Mobility, and
Masculinity in the Caribbean;
6. Friendship, Respect, and Success: Kenyan Runners in Japan;
7. Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and Social Mobility in Chinese Tennis;
8. Fijian Rugby Wives and the Gendering of Globally Mobile Families;
9. The Global Warrior: M¿ori, Rugby, and Diasporic Indigeneity;
10. Being "the Best Ever": Contradictions of Immobility and Aspiration for
Boxers in Accra, Ghana;
11. The Dream Is to Leave: Imagining Migration and Mobility Through Sport
in Senegal;
12. "This is a Business, not a Charity": Football Academies, Political
Economy, and Masculinity in Cameroon;
13. Skating on Thin Ice: Hockey Hope for Young Male Players in the
Neoliberal Age; Epilogue;
14. Neoliberalism, the Gift Economy, and Gender; ;