Fifteen international academics and scholars from diverse academic disciplines contribute 13 chapters to a text resulting from a one-year discussion project among authors and editors which
culminated in a May 2006 international conference in Lisbon. Previously published as a special issue of Soccer & Society, the text looks at football (soccer) as a major social, economic and
cultural phenomenon in societies and national contexts as diverse as Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the U.S., with a
particular emphasis on recent developments in post-colonial Portuguese speaking areas. The material is organized into sections examining football-related phenomena in relation to five major
aspects of globalization processes: 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. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
