My new book The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport has just been released!
The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts.
In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others.
Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234734
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Tamir Bar-On's new book: The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport
Hello to everyone! Happy new year!
My new book, The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, will be out in May 2014 just in time for the World Cup in Brazil! See https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234734
The book's description from the publisher Rowman and Littlefield is below:
Soccer is no ordinary game. It is the world’s most popular sport, and as such it is also a global and cultural phenomenon of immense importance. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa included nearly half of the world’s population with viewers from nearly every country and territory on earth. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport’s cultural impact can be discerned on diverse realms of life—from politics and religion to business and the arts.
In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On uses soccer to convey insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Throughout, Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. In addition, each section features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer replicates and informs our lives. Players discussed come from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds, and include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others.
Employing a unique lens through which to view a variety of societal topics, The World through Soccer reveals the profound cultural impact of the sport. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about the world we live in, this book is geared towards soccer fans, academics, and the culturally curious and offers readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
My new book, The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, will be out in May 2014 just in time for the World Cup in Brazil! See https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234734
The book's description from the publisher Rowman and Littlefield is below:
Soccer is no ordinary game. It is the world’s most popular sport, and as such it is also a global and cultural phenomenon of immense importance. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa included nearly half of the world’s population with viewers from nearly every country and territory on earth. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport’s cultural impact can be discerned on diverse realms of life—from politics and religion to business and the arts.
In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On uses soccer to convey insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Throughout, Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. In addition, each section features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer replicates and informs our lives. Players discussed come from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds, and include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others.
Employing a unique lens through which to view a variety of societal topics, The World through Soccer reveals the profound cultural impact of the sport. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about the world we live in, this book is geared towards soccer fans, academics, and the culturally curious and offers readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
Friday, June 14, 2013
View my assorted writings!
I hope that you are all enjoying the summer! In order to view my academic articles, book chapters, newspaper pieces, and book reviews, please see the following link:
http://www.docstoc.com/mydocuments/http://www.docstoc.com/mydocuments/
All the best,
Tamir
Friday, May 24, 2013
My presentation for my book Rethinking the French New Right at EGAP, TEC DE MONTERREY.
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http://www.docstoc.com/docs/157851501/Rethinking-the-French-New-Right
http://www.docstoc.com/mydocuments/
Kind regards,
Tamir Bar-On
Monday, May 20, 2013
Rethinking the French New Right: Talk at EGAP!
On May 23, I will speak at the prestigious EGAP at the TEC de MONTERREY in Monterrey, Mexico. I will be talking about my book Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013).
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All the best,
Tamir Bar-On
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All the best,
Tamir Bar-On
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Release of my new book: Rethinking the French New Right
My new book Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity (Routledge, 2013) was released yesterday:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415814058/
Here is a summary of the book written by the publisher Routledge:
This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries.
This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor use arms in order to overturn liberal democracy. In the post-World War Two era, the extremists of the revolutionary right took three different paths: 1) parliamentary; 2) extra-parliamentary; and 3) metapolitical. The New Right (nouvelle droite – ND in France) took the metapolitical path, but that did not mean it abandoned its revolutionary desire to smash liberal democracy throughout Europe.
The book examines four interpretations of the New Right. These interpretations include the following: 1) The New Right as a fascist or quasi-fascist movement; 2) The New Right as a challenge to the traditional right-left dichotomy, which has structured European political debates for more than 200 years; 3) The New Right as an alternative modernist movement, which rejects liberal and socialist narratives of modernity; accepts the technical but not political or cultural effects of modernity; and longs for a pan-European political framework abolishing liberal multiculturalism and privileging ethnic dominance of so-called original Europeans; and 4) The New Right as a variant of political religion and conversionary processes. The book concludes by analysing the positions, cultural and political impact, and relationship to democracy of the New Right.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of racism, fascism, extremism, European politics, French politics and contemporary political theory.
This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries.
This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor use arms in order to overturn liberal democracy. In the post-World War Two era, the extremists of the revolutionary right took three different paths: 1) parliamentary; 2) extra-parliamentary; and 3) metapolitical. The New Right (nouvelle droite – ND in France) took the metapolitical path, but that did not mean it abandoned its revolutionary desire to smash liberal democracy throughout Europe.
The book examines four interpretations of the New Right. These interpretations include the following: 1) The New Right as a fascist or quasi-fascist movement; 2) The New Right as a challenge to the traditional right-left dichotomy, which has structured European political debates for more than 200 years; 3) The New Right as an alternative modernist movement, which rejects liberal and socialist narratives of modernity; accepts the technical but not political or cultural effects of modernity; and longs for a pan-European political framework abolishing liberal multiculturalism and privileging ethnic dominance of so-called original Europeans; and 4) The New Right as a variant of political religion and conversionary processes. The book concludes by analysing the positions, cultural and political impact, and relationship to democracy of the New Right.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of racism, fascism, extremism, European politics, French politics and contemporary political theory.
All the best,
Tamir Bar-On
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