Sport and Secessionism

ISBN-13: 9780367566807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str.

Opis

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Sport and the Unfinished Irish Revolution.  2. Sport and secessionism in Scotland.  3. Speaking for Wales: Sport and secessionism in a small nation.  4. A game of lions and devils: sport as a driver and inhibitor of Flemish secession.  5. The Tug of War of Nationalisms: Agonic Sports for Basque-Spanish Relations.  6. Visions of Building, Specters of Collapse: Alternative Routes to Secessionism in Catalonia.  7. Football in Corsica: From the pride of being French to the desire not to be?  8. Living Through Defeat: Hungarian-Romanian Relations through Szekler Hockey.  9. Two Styles of Engagement: Kurds and Football in Turkey.  10. Narratives of nationalist politics and sport in Sindh.  11. Assembling the Diasporic Nation; Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup.  12. Sport and secessionism in Biafra.  13. "One China with Respective Interpretations" No more? - the struggle between China/PRC and Taiwan/ROC in sport.  14. The Montreal Hockey Nation: Ethnic and/or Civic Attachments?