GLOBALIZATION, NATURALIZATION AND IDENTITY: The Case of Borderless Elite Athletes in Japan

This article seeks to draw attention to the phenomenon of the so-called `borderless athletes' who transcend ethnicity or national borders in the sporting world. This approach applies Fukuoka's (1993) conceptual framework to clarify how the identities of these `global' athletes are def...

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Veröffentlicht in:	International review for the sociology of sport 2001-06, Vol.36 (2), p.203-221
Hauptverfasser:	Chiba, Naoki, Ebihara, Osamu, Morino, Shinji
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acculturation Assimilation Athletes Elites Foreigners Globalization Japan Nationalism Social Identity
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