1st Edition
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age
1. Introduction: Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age
Niko Besnier, Domenica Gisella Calabrò, and Daniel Guinness
Neoliberal Sport and Social Relations
2. Benevolent Hosts, Ungrateful Guests: African Footballers, Hospitality and the Sports Business in Istanbul
John McManus
3. "This is Business!": Ethiopian Runners in a Global Marketplace
Michael Crawley
4. Labouring Athletes, Labouring Mothers: Ethiopian Women Athletes’ Bodies at Work
Hannah Borenstein
5. From Liberation to Neoliberalism: Race, Mobility, and Masculinity in Caribbean Cricket
Adnan Hossain
6. Friendship, Respect, and Success: Kenyan Runners in Japan
Michael Kentaro Peters
7. Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and Social Mobility in Chinese Tennis
Matthew Haugen
Reconstituting Subjectivities
8. Fijian Rugby Wives and the Gendering of Globally Mobile Families
Daniel Guinness and Xandra Hecht
9. The Global Warrior: Māori, Rugby, and Diasporic Indigeneity
Domenica Gisella Calabrò
10. Being "the Best Ever": Contradictions of Immobility and Aspiration for Boxers in Accra, Ghana
Leo Hopkinson
11. The Dream Is to Leave: Imagining Migration and Mobility Through Sport in Senegal
Mark Hann
12. "This is a Business, not a Charity": Football Academies, Political Economy, and Masculinity in Cameroon
Uroš Kovač
13. Skating on Thin Ice: Hockey Hope for Young Male Players in the Neoliberal Age
Sari Pietikäinen and Anna-Liisa Ojala
Epilogue
14. Neoliberalism, the Gift Economy, and Gender
Susan Brownell
Biography
Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012–17, he directed the ERC-funded project titled "Globalization, Sport, and the Precarity of Masculinity" (GLOBALSPORT), which inspired this edited volume. With Susan Brownell and Thomas F. Carter, he coauthored The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (2018), which has been translated into French, Spanish, and Japanese. His other works have focused on sexuality and gender, globalization, precarity, and language.
Domenica Gisella Calabrò holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Messina, Italy, and is currently discipline coordinator and lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. Her research has focused on indigeneity, sport and gender in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is now also involved in research on gender-based violence in the Pacific Islands.
Daniel Guinness holds a D.Phil. in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral researcher in the GLOBALSPORT project. His interests are in the changing social relations and performances of masculinities in the context of globalized neoliberal labour markets, particularly those involving sporting migration. He has undertaken ethnographic field research in Fiji, Argentina, and Europe.
