ABSTRACT
The development of sport, and the economic processes underlying it, cannot be understood without some examination of the impact of globalisation. As David Rowe (2011: 3) notes: ‘The passage of sport under modernity from village green … to global village … has not only involved the mutation of sport but also profoundly affected the societies and cultures that have housed and received it.' That is, as this book and other recent writers argue (Giulianotti and Robertson 2009; Marjoribanks and Farquharson, 2012), sport can be conceived of as both a motor and a measure of social change.
