Title
Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League
Source of Publication
Journal of Consumer Culture
Abstract
© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. With India’s robust, neo-liberal economic growth and the growing buying power of the Indian consumers, cricket, a popular sport in India, too, has been transformed. Indian Premier League is a short-format, high-value cricket league that features major international cricket stars who come to India to join one of the eight franchised teams that take part in this competitive tournament. Using the sociological framework of glocalization, this article argues that the intersection of the global economic forces and the local culture that celebrates cricket has created a glocal space for its performance, and with the mediation of communication technology, it has widened the viewership globally. Infused with Indian money, motifs, and meanings, a new spectacle of consumption is on offer. The emergent consumer culture has transformed the game itself, adding a showbiz quality to it. Through the analysis of Indian Premier League cricket, this article sheds light on the consequences of cultural globalization, at once homogenizing and heterogenizing, an essential characteristic of glocalization.
Document Type
Article
First Page
279
Last Page
297
Publication Date
5-1-2018
DOI
10.1177/1469540517747094
Recommended Citation
Khondker, Habibul Haque and Robertson, Roland, "Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League" (2018). Scopus Indexed Articles. 1061.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/scopus-indexed-articles/1061