Publication details
Rodáci, odrodilci a adoptovaní: sport v transnacionálních souvislostech
| Title in English | The Natives, the Renegades and the Adopted: transnationalism in sport |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | fandom football globalization migration nationalism sport sport migration transnationalism |
| Description | The article pursues various forms of transnationalism as represented by and in sport arenas, both in contemporary and historical contexts. The major theoretical-critical aim is to make the concept of transnationalism more precise and therefore analytically useful. Transnationalism is distinguished not only from globalization and its derivates, but also and especially from what is simply international. The tension in the transnational is between two (rarely more) felt or expressed alternative nationally defined belongings or identities, while in the international the tension is between national and extra-national settings. Therefore nationalism plays an important and indispensable role in the constitution of transnational situation and experience. Empirically, examples are taken from various sports but football is the primary point of reference. In order to account sociologically for transnational experience (not only in sport), both historical and phenomenological perspectives are employed and called for. Transnational experience is put into the context of international sport migration in the increasingly interconnected globalized world. Thereby the role of fandom in constituting transnational situations and generating transnational experience becomes more accentuated than in most contemporary writings on sport transnationalism. |
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