Heather Sykes

The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events (eBook, PDF)

Roving Colonialism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to race and colonialism in sport. Focusing on six case studies (the Vancouver Olympics, London Olympics, Sochi Olympics, Rio World Cup and Olympics, Israeli gay sport and Egyptian soccer ultras), the book addresses racism and colonialism within gay and lesbian politics in sport. It also investigates 'homonationalism' in sport, where the inclusion of gays and lesbians is closely aligned to the interests of the colonial nation-states. Most importantly, this study offers a counter-narrative to the view that gay and lesbian inclusion in global sporting events necessarily promotes global peace and international development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317690016
• Artikelnr.: 47386887

Autorenporträt

Heather Sykes is an Associate Professor of Physical Education at OISE - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education -at the University of Toronto, Canada. Heather researches issues of sexuality in sport and physical education through the lenses of poststructural, postcolonial, queer and feminist theories. Her book entitled Queer Bodies explored homophobia, transphobia and fat phobia in Canadian physical education, raising ethical questions about how society constructs ideals about 'healthy' and 'athletic' bodies. Heather has been co-editor of the journal Curriculum Inquiry and is involved in the North American Society for Sport Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism
[Heather Sykes]
2. Methodology
[Heather Sykes]
3. Gay Pride on Stolen Land Homonationalism and Settler Colonialism at the
Vancouver Olympics
[Heather Sykes]
4. Gay/Lesbian Asylum and the Pride House Imperialist Settler
Homonationalism at the Vancouver Olympics
[Heather Sykes]
5. London Olympics, Islamophobia and English Homonationalism
[Heather Sykes]
6. 'Pot of Blood': Sochi Olympics and the Circassian Genocide
[Heather Sykes and Manal Hamzeh]
7. The No Sochi ovement and Circassian Activism: Colonial Double-backing of
the Sochi Olympics and Russian Nation Building
[Salima Bhimani]
8. Egyptian Football Ultras and the January 25th Revolution: Anti-Colonial
Masculinities and Patriarchal State Terrorism
[Manal Hamzeh and Heather Sykes]
9. Decolonizing Sporting Homonationalisms: From Complicity to Solidarity
[Heather Sykes]
10. Glossary
11. Abbreviations