Sports

[Niko Besnier & Susan Brownell] Sport. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Matei Candea, Hildegard Diemberger, Sian Lazar, Joel Robbins, Andrew Sanchez, Rupert Stasch, and Felix Stein, eds. 2019.

[Niko Besnier & Daniel Guinness] Jeunes sportifs dopés au néolibéralisme et à la religion cherchent avenir meilleur. The Conversation France. 2019.

[Niko Besnier & Daniel Guinness] Young athletes’ hope of success is nourished by neoliberalism and religion. The Conversation Global. 2019.

[Tracie Canada & Niko Besnier] Power Players: U.S. Football and French Rugby. Podcast, SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2018.

[Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell & Thomas F. Carter] Antropología del deporte: Emociones, poder y negocios en el mundo contemporáneo. Transl. Teresa Arijón. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores. 2018.

[Niko Besnier, Daniel Guinness, Mark Hann, & Uroš Kovač] Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Age: Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, Senegalese Wrestlers. Comparative Studies in Society and History 60(4): 839–872. 2018.

Corps, sports et futurs: La lutte sénégalaise dans un contexte global. In Des corps en Afrique de l’Ouest. Dominique Chevé and Cheikh Tidiane Wane, eds. Special issue of Corps 16: 111–125. 2018.

Qu’est-ce qu’une frontière pour un sportif international? In Dessiner les frontières. Michelle Auzanneau and Luca Greco, eds. Pp. 61–77. Lyon: ENS éditions. 2018.

[Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell & Thomas F. Carter] The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics. Oakland: University of California Press. 2017.

[Daniel Guinness and Niko Besnier] Nation, Nationalism, and Sport: Fijian Rugby in the Local–Global Nexus. Anthropological Quarterly 89: 1109–1142. 2016.

[Susan Brownell & Niko Besnier] Sport Mega-Events and Global Political Economy. Anthropology News 57(7–8): 16–17. 2016.

From the Pacific Islands to France: Migration, Hope and Deceit in the Rugby Industry. The Conversation Global. 2016.

Mercenaire: Migration, espoirs et tromperies dans l’industrie du rugby. The Conversation France. 2016.

[Niko Besnier & Susan Brownell] The Untold Story Behind Fiji’s Astonishing Gold Medal: Fiji’s National Identity Is Deeply Entangled with Rugby, but not Everyone is Encouraged to Play. SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2016.

[Susan Brownell & Niko Besnier] Do the Olympics Make Economic Sense? The Olympic Games Aren’t Financially Rational, but their Value Can Be Explained in Other Ways. SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2016.

[Susan Brownell & Niko Besnier] Zika at the Rio Games: Pandemic or Panic? Concerns about the Zika Virus are Fueled More by Fear than by Medical Science. SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2016.

[Niko Besnier & Susan Brownell] Rio’s Olympic Festival in the Streets: How Does the 21st-Century Technology of Big-Screen TV Square with the Age-Old Human Penchant for Celebrations? SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2016.

[Niko Besnier & Susan Brownell] Your Olympic Team May Be an Illusion: In Today’s Globalized Society, Many Athletes Are More Citizens of the World than of One Country. SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human. 2016.

[Daniel Guinness & Niko Besnier] Economies of Hope and Rugby Dreams in Rural Fiji. GLOBALSPORT website. 2016.

Sports Mobilities Across Borders: Postcolonial Perspectives. In Postcolonial Sports: International Perspectives. Stanislas Frenkiel, Thomas Riot, and Nicolas Bancel, eds. Special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport 32: 849–861. 2015.

Pacific Island Rugby: Histories, Mobilities, Comparisons. In Playing on the Global Periphery: Social Scientific Explorations of Rugby in the Pacific Islands. Yoko Kanematsu and Gyozo Molnar, eds. Special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3: 268–276. 2014.

Sport, Bodies, Futures: An Epilogue. In Contemporary Sporting Formations in Oceania. Lisa Uperesa and Thomas Mountjoy, eds. Special issue of The Contemporary Pacific 26: 435–444. 2014.

Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality. Guest-edited issue of Open Anthropology 3(1). 2014.

Field Notes: Sport as an Interrogation of Social and Cultural Life. Cultural Anthropology website. 2014.

[Niko Besnier and Susan Brownell] Sport, Modernity, and the BodyAnnual Review of Anthropology 41: 443–459. 2012.

The Athlete’s Body and the Global Condition: Tongan Rugby Players in Japan. American Ethnologist 39: 491–510. 2012.

[Niko Besnier and Kitahara Takuya] 在日トンガ人ラグビー選手:グローバルな移動とスポーツ. 季刊民族学 130:46-54. 2009.

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