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The edited collection Sport, Globalisation and Identity: New Perspectives on Regions and Nations by Jim O’Brien, Russell Holden & Xavier Ginesta (Routledge) explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity. Christer Ericsson, a self-confessed anthology skeptic, had some reservations while reading but concluded that this anthology had done its job, presenting interesting new studies in a way as to create a coherent whole.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. In Sport, Globalisation and Identity: New Perspectives on Regions and Nations, edited by Jim O'Brien, Russell Holden, Xavier Ginesta, the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity, is explored.

Communication and Sport is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. C&S welcomes studies of sport and media in mass and new media settings, research on sport in interpersonal, group, organizational, and other communication contexts.