"Opinions about sport are as varied as sport itself. But it is clear that when girls in Saudi Arabia ride a bike, it is not just for fun. It makes a social statement. Sport has a universal attraction, it spans linguistic and cultural boundaries. It gets into the hearts of people all over the world and opens doors. The integration of refugees, conflict resolution, human rights and the fight against racism, - these are just some of the areas where sport can have a positive role to play. But the ideal of fair play is under thread from corruption and commercialization. Greed and political manoevering have thrown a dark shadow over recent - and future - mega sports events. Can sport be a useful tool in cultural relations? And what can we as normal citizens learn from an extreme mountaineer? These and other questions are addressed in the Culture Report and EUNIC yearbook 2016 by authors as diverse as Umberto Ego, Reinhold Messner, Dave Eggers, Serhij Zhadan, Beqë Cufaj and Claus Leggewie." -- Provided by publisher

Global Game: Sport, Culture, Development and Foreign Policy: Culture Report EUNIC Yearbook 2016

A global game : sport, culture, development and foreign policy

Billows, William, editor; Körber, Sebastian, editor; McKay, Neil (Translator), translator; McKay, Gill, translator; Alkemeyer, Thomas, contributor; Brentin, Dario, contributor; Burnett, Cora, contributor; Cameron, Heather, contributor; Cufaj, Beqë, 1970- contributor; Dowbor, Ladislau, contributor; Eco, Umberto, contributor; Eggers, Dave, contributor; Grix, Jonathan, contributor; Haß, Julie, contributor; Haut, Jan, contributor; Jarvie, Grant, 1955- contributor; Köber, Sebastian, contributor; Leggewie, Claus, 1950- contributor; Li, Yongzian, contributor; Maguire, Joseph, contributor; Markovits, Andrei S., contributor; Meier, Marianne, contributor; Messner, Reinhold, 1944- contributor; Mittag, Jürgen, 1970- contributor; Reiter, Bernd, 1968- contributor; Rieck, Julian, contributor; Schneider, K. H. (Karl-Heinz), contributor; Sørensen, Anders Ravn, contributor; Vogl, Frank, 1945- contributor; Zhadan, Serhij, contributor; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, publisher; EUNIC, publisher

Steidl/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations/EUNIC

Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, Gerhard

Steidl GmbH & Co. OHG

Germany, Germany

2019

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2021

256 pages : 24 cm
"Opinions about sport are as varied as sport itself. But it is clear that when girls in Saudi Arabia ride a bike, it is not just for fun. It makes a social statement. Sport has a universal attraction, it spans linguistic and cultural boundaries. It gets into the hearts of people all over the world and opens doors. The integration of refugees, conflict resolution, human rights and the fight against racism, - these are just some of the areas where sport can have a positive role to play. But the ideal of fair play is under thread from corruption and commercialization. Greed and political manoevering have thrown a dark shadow over recent - and future - mega sports events. Can sport be a useful tool in cultural relations? And what can we as normal citizens learn from an extreme mountaineer? These and other questions are addressed in the Culture Report and EUNIC yearbook 2016 by authors as diverse as Umberto Ego, Reinhold Messner, Dave Eggers, Serhij Zhadan, Beqë Cufaj and Claus Leggewie." --
"Published by EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)" -- Colophon

2023-06-28