Sport and Protest (eBook, ePUB)

Global Perspectives
Redaktion: Kilcline, Cathal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume illuminates the evolving political, economic, environmental and cultural implications of sport in society. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of The History of Sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429955631
• Artikelnr.: 58489483

Autorenporträt

Cathal Kilcline's research, which focuses primarily on sport, globalization and migration in contemporary France, has been funded by the EU Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme) and Irish Research Council through a Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship, held at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and NUI Galway. Recent sports-themed publications include special issues of French Cultural Studies (2014) and Contemporary French Civilization (2014) and a monograph on Sport and Society in Global France with Liverpool University Press. The current project on sport and protest movements was initiated at conference held at NUI Galway that was supported by the French and Swiss embassies in Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sport and Protest: Global Perspectives Cathal Kilcline 2. Protest,
Activism, and the Olympic Games: An Overview of Key Issues and Iconic
Moments Jules Boykoff 3. Olympic Ideals and the Limitations of Liberal
Protest Helen Jefferson Lenskyj 4. IRF Off: Connacht's Fight for Survival
and the Foundation Myth of a Rugby Identity Ruadhán Cooke and Éamon Ó
Cofaigh 5. The Gaelic Athletic Association and the 1981 H-Block Hunger
Strike Mark Reynolds 6. Nicolas Anelka and the Quenelle Gesture: A Study of
the Complexities of Protest in Contemporary Football Jonathan Ervine 7.
Loss, Protest, and Heritage: Liverpool FC and Hillsborough Mike Cronin 8.
Don't Play Ball with South Africa: The United States, the Anti-Apartheid
Movement, and the Davis Cup Protests Eric J. Morgan