What effect has
globalisation had the business of football?
Research project objectives/questions:
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Does soccer explain the world? Or does the world explain soccer?
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Is soccer a cause of global integration? Or does it result from global
integration?
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These questions animate (bring to life) much recent popular writing on
soccer.
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In order to answer these questions, the research will first defines the
nature of “play”.
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The research will then analyse recent soccer writing from the
perspectives of the globalization of politics, economics, and culture.
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The research will conclude by investigating whether the game follows
globalization trends more than it causes them in the realms of politics and
economics.
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Moreover, in the cultural realm, the research will explore if the global
game’s culture of play unites disparate (essentially different in kind; not
able to be compared) cultures around the globe.
Soccer may not
bring world peace or move global markets, but it may bring people together under the “sign of play"?
