TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jonathan Sullivan
AU  - Tobias Ross
AU  - Angela Lewis
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2689-3479
SN  - 9781636676500
TI  - Global China and the Global Game in Africa
T2  - China–Africa Engagement through the Lens of Football
DO  - 10.3726/b21200
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1370430
N2  - The story of China–Africa relations is one of the most important geopolitical and geoeconomic developments of the past two decades. This book uses the interaction between China and African countries in football to critically examine how engagement through football reproduces unequal outcomes but also positive developments on both sides. A multidisciplinary cast of China and Africa scholars demonstrate how political, economic, social and cultural issues play out through football, illuminating the motivations, processes and consequences of the evolving relationship between China and African countries. From nation states, corporations, institutions, clubs, players and fans, this book shows how the global game runs through Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Beijing, Guangzhou and the Chinese Northeast, with its ramifications for geopolitics, South–South relations, international sports governance, diplomacy, soft power, international media, labor migration and transnational fandoms.
KW  - women’s football, international relations, geopolitical economy, athlete naturalization, athlete migration, sport diplomacy, stadium diplomacy, sport broadcasting
LA  - English
ER  -