Abstract des Autors

The key features of this collection are how cultural elements are introduced to sport, how changes are perceived, how sporting practices and institutions can be defined at geopolitical and other levels, how we might conceptualize the perimeter of judging the national–transnational or the local–translocal paradigms, and how we could complicate the understanding of sport/knowledge transfer by ascribing different degrees of importance to origin, process, purpose, outcome, personnel and network. Though not too global in scale, the articles try to cover as much of the canvas it has been possible under restraints of number. The global, as has been pointed out repeatedly, can very well be seen from within the limits of a parochial commonplace. (geändert)