Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana
(2020)
Book Chapter
Hopkinson, L. (2020). Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana. In N. Besnier, D. G. Calabrò, & D. Guinness (Eds.), Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age (176-194). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429423277
Ambitions to participate in global sporting markets come hand in hand with projects of global mobility and transnational migration. However, the extreme competitiveness of sporting industries means far fewer aspiring athletes realize dreams of global... Read More about Being “The Best Ever”: Contradictions of immobility and aspiration for boxers in Accra, Ghana.