This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013.
Sports events, participation, and sports programming in the media have come to play an outsize role in contemporary society. Global events like the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup draw billions of viewers but at the same time sports retain a distinctly local flavor.
It’s How You Play the Game: International Perspectives on the Study of Sport covers an extraordinary amount of ground from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. From Egypt and Qatar to the Dominican Republic, Australia, and the US, the authors of this fascinating collection use insights drawn from Anthropology, Communication, Political Economy and Sociology to shed light on the phenomena of sports in the context of politics, identity (personal and collective), business and education, drawing out both the global and local implications of the increasing presence of sports in our lives.
Susan Dun is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Northwestern University, Qatar. Dr. Dun received her PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 2003 and taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois before moving to Qatar to start up the Northwestern campus in Education City in 2008. Her research focuses on a variety of subjects relating to the Muslim world including digital and media literacy, sports participation among Muslim women, and Internet searching strategies of bi-lingual web users.
Mo’tasem Kalaji is a Bachelor’s degree candidate in the Department of Communication at Northwestern University, Qatar. Kalaji joined Northwestern University in Qatar in 2009 and is expected to graduate in May 2013. He is currently Dr. Susan Dun’s research assistant and is a co-author with Dr. Dun on multiple research projects focusing on a variety of subjects relating to the Muslim world including digital and media literacy, sports participation among Muslim women, and Internet searching strategies of bi-lingual web users.
Marion Stell is General Editor of the Queensland Historical Atlas (www.qhatlas.com.au) and other scholarly websites in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include the sporting landscape.