Sport Past and Present in South Africa : (Trans)forming the Nation

ISBN-13: 9780415552356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Scarlett Cornelissen; Albert Grundlingh

Opis

This text is a history of the development of sport in South Africa which focuses on the role that sport played in some of the chief processes of the country's political, cultural and social transformation in the 20th century.

Spis treści

1. Prologue: Sport Past and Present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the Nation?  Scarlett Cornelissen  2. ‘Preventing Huddersfield’: The Rise and Decline of Rugby League in South Africa, c.1957–1965  Hendrik Snyders  3. ‘Certain Political Considerations’: South African Competitive Surfing During the International Sports Boycott  Glen Thompson  4. ‘Now the African Reigns Supreme’: The Rise of African Boxing on the Witwatersrand, 1924–1959  Tyler Fleming  5. ‘A Man’s Game’: Cricket, War and Masculinity, South Africa, 1899–1902  Dean Allen  6. The 1899 Orange Free State football Team tour of Europe: ‘Race’, Imperial Loyalty and Sporting Contest  Chris Bolsmann  7. From J.J. ‘Boerjong’ Kotze to Hansie Cronje: Afrikaners and Cricket in Twentieth-Century South Africa – Diffusion and Representation  Albert Grundlingh  8. ‘Neither Cricketers nor Ladies’: Towards a History of Women and Cricket in South Africa, 1860s–2000s  André Odendaal  9. Tackling Femininity: The Heterosexual Paradigm and Women’s Soccer in South Africa  Mari Haugaa Engh  10. ‘Resolving ‘‘The South Africa Problem’’’: Transnational Activism, Ideology and Race in the Olympic Movement, 1960–91  Scarlett Cornelissen  11. Bread or Circuses? The 2010 World Cup and South Africa’s Quest for Marketing Power  Janis van der Westhuizen and Kamilla Swart  12. Epilogue: Making New Histories of Sport in South Africa  John Nauright

O autorze

Scarlett Cornelissen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Albert Grundlingh is Professor of History at Stellenbosch University.