Beyond Soccer - International Relations Politics As Seen Through 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, postcolonialism, and feminism.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Theory and International Relations Theories in Brief
Chapter 2: Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism
Chapter 3: Constructing Identities: Straddling the Local, National, and Global
Chapter 4: Learning about Postcolonialism through Soccer
Chapter 5: "You Just Don't Understand": A Feminist Reading of the "Beautiful Game"
Chapter 6: FIFA, Realism, and Emancipatory IR Theory
Chapter 7: Three Competing Soccer Discourses
Chapter 8: The Geopolitics of Soccer
Chapter 9: Soccer, Sovereignty, and the State of Exception
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Tamir Bar-On

Summary

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, postcolonialism, and feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Bar-On, Tamir Bar-On, Bar-On Tamir, Gary Whiteley
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781442275430
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7543-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Football (Soccer, Association football)