演講主題：Global Sports Dreams and Athlete Migrations in the Neoliberal Age
講者：Niko Besnier
(Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, La Trobe University Melbourne / Visiting Chair Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University (2025–26)）
時間：2026年4月15日，下午3點至5點
地點：人社C304
 

講題摘要：
Sports industries have undergone radical transformations since the 1980s, when the neo-liberalism conceived by the inter-war Vienna School became a political reality. Now under the power of private television channels, mainstream sports have sought out new sporting talent in increasingly distant lands, stimulating hopes of economic success and sporting glory among young men in the countries of the Global South, where economies had collapsed and the economic restructuring ordered by major donor had eroded labor markets. But these hopes collide with the much more frequent reality of failure, exploitation, and disappointment. Multi-sited ethnographic work carried out by the GLOBALSPORT research team on football players in Senegal and Cameroon, rugby players in Fiji and Senegalese wrestlers highlight the effects of neoliberal capitalism on bodies and futures in sports and contexts that are very different indeed.