The (trans)national basketball association: American commodity-sign culture and global-local conjuncturalism

Articulating The Global And The Local: Globalization And Cultural Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 72-101

  Andrews, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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