Reimagining Sports: African Athletes, Defection, and Ambiguous Citizenship.
This paper interrogates citizenship in the context of the ease and fluidity with which talented African athletes from the global South are defecting to the North and the Gulf states and switching nationalities; in particular, how the pull of capital and globalization are impinging on traditional not...
| Publicado en: | Africa Today Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 27 - 41 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter 2010
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