Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780367247638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Paddy Dolan; John Connolly

Opis

This book examines the contested relevance of national identities in sport in the context of globalization. It discusses how national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices in history and the present.

Spis treści

1. Contested and Contingent National Identifications in Sport [Paddy Dolan and John Connolly]  Part 1: Sporting Politics, Contested Identities and Organisational Governance  2. Sports Policy Between State Intervention and Sports Autonomy: Consents and Conflicts of the Spanish Sports Policy [Ninja Putzmann]  3. Sport as a Pillar of Representation of the Current Basque Identity [Ekain Rojo-Labaien]  4. Politics and Identity in European Football: Cyprus in Comparative Context [Christos Kassimeris and Charis Xinari]  5. Partition in Irish Sport During the 1950s [Cormac Moore]  Part 2: Media Representations, Sport and National Identities  6. Constructing the Nation Through Sports News on Catalan Television [Albert Juncà Pujol and Eduard Inglés Yuba]  7. No Boarders: Post-National Identity and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland [Stephen Boyd]  8. Confronting America: Black Commercial Aesthetics, Athlete Activism and the Nation Reconsidered [Ronald L. Mower, Jacob J. Bustad and David L. Andrews]  Part 3: Sporting Nationalisms and Interstate Power Relations  9. Beaten at Their Own Game? A Study of British Football Power [Paul Tchir]  10. Association Football, the Armed Forces and Invisible Nationalism in Britain [Roger Penn]  11. Sporting Spectacle, 9/11 and the Reconstitution of the American Nation [Michael Silk]  12. Shaolin Kung Fu, Chan Buddhism and National Identity [Lu Zhouxiang]  13. Sport and the Politics of National Identity in the Two Chinas [Alan Bairner]