Cathal Kilcline teaches French in the west of Ireland. Whilst researching this book, Cathal was supported by the Irish Research Council and the EU Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) through a CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship

‘L’approche est d’autant plus riche et originale pour les lecteurs français (qu’ils soient chercheurs ou étudiants, plutôt dans les domaines et les filières liés au management et à l’enseignement) qu’elle leur permet ainsi de prendre de la distance avec leurs propres représentations et routines de pensée.’ ‘The approach is all the richer and more original for French readers (be they researchers or students, especially in the fields of management and education) because it enables them to take a step back from their own forms of representation and ways of thinking’. Robin Recours, STAPS Journal

• IntroductionChapter 1 – Monuments Men: Among the Afterlives of France ’98Chapter 2 – Football’s FrançafriqueChapter 3 – Adventure capitalists: Paris-Dakar reduxChapter 4 – American Dreams: Be Like MikeChapter 5 - Made in France: Nostalgia and (re)cyclingChapter 6 – Plutocrats, Paranoia, Platoche : Qatar Sports Investment in ParisConclusionBibliography

Cathal Kilcline teaches French in the west of Ireland. Whilst researching this book, Cathal was supported by the Irish Research Council and the EU Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) through a CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship

‘L’approche est d’autant plus riche et originale pour les lecteurs français (qu’ils soient chercheurs ou étudiants, plutôt dans les domaines et les filières liés au management et à l’enseignement) qu’elle leur permet ainsi de prendre de la distance avec leurs propres représentations et routines de pensée.’ ‘The approach is all the richer and more original for French readers (be they researchers or students, especially in the fields of management and education) because it enables them to take a step back from their own forms of representation and ways of thinking’. Robin Recours, STAPS Journal

• IntroductionChapter 1 – Monuments Men: Among the Afterlives of France ’98Chapter 2 – Football’s FrançafriqueChapter 3 – Adventure capitalists: Paris-Dakar reduxChapter 4 – American Dreams: Be Like MikeChapter 5 - Made in France: Nostalgia and (re)cyclingChapter 6 – Plutocrats, Paranoia, Platoche : Qatar Sports Investment in ParisConclusionBibliography