Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?

ISBN-13: 9781032125978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 424 str.

Hurcombe, Martin

Opis

This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.

Spis treści

Introduction: ‘Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus'  Part 1: Military and Sporting Cultures  1. Boars as Rebels: Pig-Sticking as a Military Sport for the British Army in India  2. Reporting the Death of Cycling’s Elite in First World War France  3. Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup  4. Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision and the Logic of War in Esports  Part 2: Play On: Negotiating Sporting Practice in a Time of Conflict  5. 'You are absolutely indifferent to the call of your King': Horse Racing, War and Politics in New Zealand, 1914-18  6. 'Flannelled fools are strutting about tennis courts': Lawn Tennis in Britain during the Great War  7. Occupied Scandinavian Brother Nations: Danish and Norwegian Sports during World War II  8. The General's Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship during Columbia's La Violencia, 1953-58  Part 3: Sports Culture and the Legacy of War  9. 'What Demobilised Men Want': Physical Culture and Post-War British Masculinity  10. The 'Great Game' and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish-British Relations in the Olympic Movement  11. The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War  12. Remembering 'Our Boys': Football, War, and Masculinity in the British Military Spectacular  Part 4: Playing for Peace: Cultural Diplomacy or Pacification?  13. Overcoming Antipathy for Internationalism? Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games  14. War and Sport in 'French' Algeria: From Pacification to Decolonization  15. 'A Fine Example of Brotherhood and Sportsmanship': The 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the Era of the 'Little Détente'  16. Replacing Bullets with Balls: Sport for Peace in the FARC Demobilization and Reincorporation Camps