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    History, Politics and Identity

    This is the first critical, in-depth academic study of FC Barcelona (also known as Barça), one of the world’s great football clubs, exploring the historical, political, cultural and commercial dimensions of this global sporting institution.The book examines why and how the club grew from its genesis as a small sporting organisation in the developing urban landscape of Barcelona in 1899 to become a ... Read more

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  • Sport, Globalisation and Identity

    New Perspectives on Regions and Nations

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
    Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity.Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport and its ... Read more

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    Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body

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    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of sport / text / body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America, Spain and the chicano ... Read more

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  • Futebol Nation

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  • The Tourism Encounter

    Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

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    In recent decades, several Latin American nations have experienced political transitions that have caused a decline in tourism. In spite of—or even because of—that history, these areas are again becoming popular destinations. This work reveals that in post-conflict nations, tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and sometimes benefits from formerly off-limits status ... Read more

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  • Transforming Barcelona

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  • Globalised Football

    Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies.In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight ... Read more

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