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Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League
Journal of Consumer Culture
  • Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University
  • Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2018
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.

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords
  • Consumerism,
  • cricket,
  • glocalization,
  • Indian Premier League,
  • neo-liberalism
Scopus ID
85046718254
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517747094
Citation Information
Habibul Haque Khondker and Roland Robertson. "Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League" Journal of Consumer Culture Vol. 18 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 279 - 297 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1469-5405" target="_blank">1469-5405</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/habibul-khondker/48/