Beyond soccer : international relations and politics as seen through the beautiful game /

This textbook examines the relationships between soccer, politics, and international relations. It uses soccer players and other individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts-such as geopolitics, ideology, and sovereignty-and IR theories-including realism, postcoloni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bar-On, Tamir (Author)
Corporate Author:	Rowman & Littlefield EBA
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Subjects:	International relations > Social aspects. International relations and culture. Soccer > Political aspects. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.