Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen Through the Beautiful Game

By Tamir Bar-on

Book Overview

As the world's most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect and impact culture, society, and politics. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game provides students with a new and innovative way to learn about political science and international relations. It uses soccer players, officials, fans, and organizations to teach political science concepts--such as geopolitics, discourses, and sovereignty--and IR theories--including realism, liberalism, and feminism. This text also incorporates three common soccer discourses to highlight the possibilities of soccer as a tool for unity and social change, as a defender of established power, and as simultaneously a mechanism used by established power and an engine for social resistance.

With exercises, discussion questions, and keywords included in each chapter, Beyond Soccer is a worthwhile and accessible educational tool. Primarily written for undergraduate students of all levels, this book will be valuable in political science, international relations, cultural studies, and sociology courses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442275421
• ISBN13: 9781442275423
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary