Global Sport

2017-05-20

The mere presence of thirty-two children from a Rio de Janeiro favela at the head office of Novavisão (all names are pseudonyms), a leading Brazilian...

2016-11-03

Since its introduction in 2004, WADA’s World Anti-Doping Code has become the primary tool in the worldwide struggle against doping in sport. It has established...

2016-10-04

Every year, male cricketers from many islands in the Caribbean migrate temporarily to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the richest country in the...

2016-09-25

Many young aspiring footballers in West Africa see participation in professional football, which has over the years become a global multibillion industry...

2016-09-19

It came as something of a surprise to me when Omar, an aspiring wrestler whom I had come to know during my fieldwork, revealed to me his Casamançais ancestry...

2016-09-07

At Buea Young Star FC (a pseudonym), a football academy in Buea, the capital of the Southwest region of Cameroon where I conducted fieldwork between September...

2016-06-21

In spring 2015, GLOBALSPORT member Mark Hann teamed up with Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Khouma Gueye with the goal of making a film about the hopes,...

2016-04-22

The Economy of Dreams Daniel Guinness and Niko Besnier In Fiji, the outside world profoundly and directly affects even small i-Taukei (indigenous) villages...

2015-07-30

The Real Action is not on the Track In a Tokyo suburb on the last Saturday in November, with afternoon showers knocking the remnants of autumn leaves...

2015-04-18

The above video is an attempt to depict a Senegalese lamb (wrestling with punches) combat from the perspective of one of its protagonists, Modou Lô 2...