Gerard Akindes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5072341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard Akindes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Akindes |
| SIGNATURE | AKINDES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
"These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world. Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gendered relations on the continent. Originally intended as a means of "civilizing" indigenous populations and upholding …
Identity and Nation in African Football
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, na
Itâ s All About the Beautiful Game of Football, or Is It? On Television and Football in North Africa
South Asia and South-East Asia
Today, playing football can be considered a global practice, a universal reference that transcends cultures and nations. Football players’ global mobility exhibits some aspects of the worldwide dimension of the culture of the game. Quantitative data (along with academic analysis and studies of the contemporary migration) rank Africa as the third-largest exporter of footballers. Such data explain the magnitude of the exodus and the migratory route…
Football bars
The sub-Saharan African television landscape has significantly changed since the 1990s under the influence of technological, economic and political factors. Transnational television broadcasting blossomed in Africa and paved the way for the import of overseas football content. Live broadcasting of football flourished due to deregulation and political factors, allowing European football games to become accessible to fans across sub-Saharan Africa.…
Football Academies and the Migration of African Football Labor to Europe
This article analyzes one of the key features of the increased trading in African football labor since the 1990s, the establishment of football “academies” in Africa. The article begins by setting out a broad explanatory framework that articulates the transit of African footballers to Europe and the role of football academies in this process as a form of neocolonial exploitation and impoverishment of the developing world by the developed world. A…
Football Academies and the Migration of African Football Labor to Europe
This article analyzes one of the key features of the increased trading in African football labor since the 1990s, the establishment of football “academies” in Africa. The article begins by setting out a broad explanatory framework that articulates the transit of African footballers to Europe and the role of football academies in this process as a form of neocolonial exploitation and impoverishment of the developing world by the developed world. A…
Football bars
The sub-Saharan African television landscape has significantly changed since the 1990s under the influence of technological, economic and political factors. Transnational television broadcasting blossomed in Africa and paved the way for the import of overseas football content. Live broadcasting of football flourished due to deregulation and political factors, allowing European football games to become accessible to fans across sub-Saharan Africa.…
South Asia and South-East Asia
Today, playing football can be considered a global practice, a universal reference that transcends cultures and nations. Football players’ global mobility exhibits some aspects of the worldwide dimension of the culture of the game. Quantitative data (along with academic analysis and studies of the contemporary migration) rank Africa as the third-largest exporter of footballers. Such data explain the magnitude of the exodus and the migratory route…
Football Academies and the Migration of African Football Labor to Europe
This article analyzes one of the key features of the increased trading in African football labor since the 1990s, the establishment of football “academies” in Africa. The article begins by setting out a broad explanatory framework that articulates the transit of African footballers to Europe and the role of football academies in this process as a form of neocolonial exploitation and impoverishment of the developing world by the developed world. A…
Football bars
The sub-Saharan African television landscape has significantly changed since the 1990s under the influence of technological, economic and political factors. Transnational television broadcasting blossomed in Africa and paved the way for the import of overseas football content. Live broadcasting of football flourished due to deregulation and political factors, allowing European football games to become accessible to fans across sub-Saharan Africa.…
South Asia and South-East Asia
Today, playing football can be considered a global practice, a universal reference that transcends cultures and nations. Football players’ global mobility exhibits some aspects of the worldwide dimension of the culture of the game. Quantitative data (along with academic analysis and studies of the contemporary migration) rank Africa as the third-largest exporter of footballers. Such data explain the magnitude of the exodus and the migratory route…
Identity and Nation in African Football
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, na
Itâ s All About the Beautiful Game of Football, or Is It? On Television and Football in North Africa
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
"These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world. Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gendered relations on the continent. Originally intended as a means of "civilizing" indigenous populations and upholding …
Football (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works)