Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity : Building Global Understanding

ISBN-13: 9780415483544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 128 str.

Daryl Adair;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book discusses issues of diversity, capacity and equity in the colourful world of global sport and addresses international dimensions of sport, commonality and difference, as well as the special circumstances of sport and social relations in particular places.

Spis treści

Foreword - Building global understanding: ethnocultural diversity and sport  Daryl Adair  1. ‘The race for supremacy’: the politics of ‘white’ sport in South Africa, 1870 – 1910  Dean Allen  2. History and its racial legacies: quotas in South African rugby and cricket  Christopher Merrett, Colin Tatz and Daryl Adair  3 Around the world: problematizing the Harlem Globetrotters as cold war warriors  Damion Thomas  4 The televised sport ‘monkey trial’: ‘race’ and the politics of post-colonial cricket  David Rowe  5. International development or white man’s burden? The IAAF’s Regional Development Centres and regional sporting assistance  James Connor and Melissa McEwen  6. In-groups, out-groups and contested identities in Scottish international football  Joseph M. Bradley  7. Ethnicity, structure and globalization: an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958 – 2010  Roy Hay

O autorze

Daryl Adair earned a PhD in Australian history from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1994. Since then he has researched and taught sport history at De Montfort University Leicester and the University of Queensland, then added sport media and sport management to his repertoire at the University of Canberra. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sport in the UTS Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney.