| Series |
Global culture and sport series
Global culture and sport. ^A1255781
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| Contents |
'Deeds, not words' : Emily Wilding Davison and the Epsom Derby 1913 revisited / Carol Osborne -- Women's Olympics : protest, strategy or both? / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- A most contentious contest : politics and protests at the 1936 Berlin Olympics / David Clay Large -- Splitting the world of international sport : the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces and the politics of challenging the global sport order / Russell Field -- "Memorias del '68 : media, massacre, and the construction of collective memories" / Celeste González Bustamante -- Race, rugby and political protest in New Zealand : a personal account / John Minto -- Fighting toxic greens : the global anti-golf movement (GAG'M) revisited / Anita Pleumarom -- 'Human rights or cheap code words for antisemitism?' : the debate over Israel, Palestine and sport sanctions / Jon Dart -- Chicago 2016 versus Rio 2016 : Olympic 'winners' and 'losers' / Kostas Zervas -- "The Olympics do not understand Canada" : Canada and the rise of Olympic protests / Christine M. O'Bonsawin -- 'The Atos Games' : protest, the Paralympics of 2012 and the new politics of disablement / Stephen Wagg -- 'Messing about on the river' : Trenton Oldfield and the possibilities of sports protest / Jon Dart -- Sochi 2014 Olympics : accommodation and resistance / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- An anatomy of resistance : the Popular Committees of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil / Christopher Gaffney. |
| Abstract |
This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest. The book contains studies of a range of protests, stretching back to the death of suffragist Emily Davison at the Derby of 1913 and encompassing subsequent protests against the exclusion of women from the sporting arena; the Berlin Olympics of 1936; Western imperialism; the Mexico Olympics, 1968; the state racism of apartheid in South Africa; the effect of the global golf industry on ecosystems; Israeli government policy; resistance to the various attempts to bring the Olympic Games to Canadian and American cities; the cutting of welfare benefits for disabled British citizens; class privilege in the UK; Russian anti-gay laws; and high public spending on sport mega-events in Brazil. The collection will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sports Studies, History, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and Sociology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Sport, protest and globalisation. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 1137464917 9781137464910 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781137464927 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137464925 (electronic bk.) |
