Overview
- Considers the cultural, geographical, and historical embeddedness of professional basketball
- Provides a sensitive analysis of how specific decisions, trends, or movements have come about within the sport
- Employs qualitative methods, providing new perspectives on the topic
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Changes of and Transformations Within Basketball
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Professional Basketball in Different Media and Cultural Products
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The NBA Between Domestic and International Dynamics
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About this book
This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity. The chapters analyse the fact that the sport of basketball contains alternative logics that can easily clash, and by treating professional basketball as the negotiation place of these multiple demands, ideas, and logics, the editors have identified three areas in which these clashes manifest: the realization of the game; the cultural impact of professional basketball and the global outreach of professional basketball.
The book is explanatory and qualitative, offering new perspectives and touching on topics including gender, diversity, racism, and minority experiences within professional basketball. As such it will be of interest to sport sociologists, as well as those researching the history of sport, sports marketing and cultural studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Niklas Thomas is a student of English and Sport Science at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published articles on the sport-society-nexus in international peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball
Book Subtitle: Investigating the Hardwood
Editors: Till Neuhaus, Niklas Thomas
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41656-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41655-2Published: 05 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41658-3Due: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41656-9Published: 03 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 349
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Sociology of Culture, Sports Economics, Political Sociology