Sport and Politics

Sport is the harbinger of political purpose. This book analyses China's hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions around the Pacific Rim through its recent hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games._x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport...

This new handbook goes further than any other book in surveying the complex, embedded relationships between sport and politics. With sections addressing ideologies, nation and statehood, corporate politics, political activism and social justice, and the poiltics of sports events, it introduces the c..

This study considers the nature and development of linkages between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939...

This selection of essays delves into the ways in which sport evokes, informs, and contradicts understandings of citizenship in a variety of national, social and political contexts._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

This selection of essays delves into the ways in which sport evokes, informs, and contradicts understandings of citizenship in a variety of national, social and political contexts._x005F_x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

Examines the shaping of sports by both the fascist and communist institutions of Europe during the interwar period. It shows how sports were used as an instrument of propaganda and psychological pressure by major political and sporting nations...

This book examines the contested relevance of national identities in sport in the context of globalization. It examines how national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices in history and the present. Sport is addressed as a changing cultural tradition..

The book is an analysis of the relationship between sport and nationalism from an Asian perspective. It examines how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism. It discusses the role of traditional sport in ..

This book is dedicated to the reception of classical antiquity in modern sport and bodily culture. Taking Greece as a case-study, essays in the volume examine facets of the intricate association of classicism, sport, bodily culture, spectacles, national and gender identities, and the modern Olympics..

The Guangzhou Asian Games was a metaphor for the regional rise of China. It crushed the other nations beneath a mass of medals. China once again stood apart from the other Asian nations: the Games was a harbinger of future wider hegemonic dominance._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue ..

The Guangzhou Asian Games was a metaphor for the regional rise of China. It crushed the other nations beneath a mass of medals. China once again stood apart from the other Asian nations: the Games was a harbinger of future wider hegemonic dominance._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special ..

This book examines the means by which China has utilised its hosting of the Olympic Games to achieve her ambitions in embracing both soft power and hard power._x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport...