Sport, Protest and Globalisation, 1st ed. 2016 Stopping Play Global Culture and Sport Series

This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest. The book contains studies of a range of protests, stretching back to the death of suffragist Emily Davison at the Derby of 1913 and encompassing subsequent protests against the exclusion of women from the sporting arena; the Berlin Olympics of 1936; Western imperialism; the Mexico Olympics, 1968; the state racism of apartheid in South Africa; the effect of the global golf industry on ecosystems; Israeli government policy; resistance to the various attempts to bring the Olympic Games to Canadian and American cities; the cutting of welfare benefits fordisabled British citizens; class privilege in the UK; Russian anti-gay laws; and high public spending on sport mega-events in Brazil. The collection will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sports Studies, History, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and Sociology.

1. ‘Deeds, Not Words’: Emily Wilding Davison and the Epsom Derby 1913 Revisited; Carol Osborne.- 2. Women’s Olympics: Protest, Strategy or Both?; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.- 3. A Most Contentious Contest. Politics and Protest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ; David Clay Large and Joshua J. H. Large.- 4. Splitting the World of International Sport: The 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces and the politics of challenging the global sport order; Russell Field.- 5. “Memorias del ’68: Media, Massacre, and the Construction of Collective Memories” Celeste González de Bustamante.- 6. Race, Rugby and Political Protest in New Zealand: A Personal Account; John Minto.- 7. Fighting Toxic Greens: The Global Anti-Golf Movement (GAG’M) Revisitedl; Anita Pleumarom.- 8. ‘Human Rights or Cheap Code; Words for Antisemitism?’ The Debate over Israel, Palestine and Sport Sanctions; Jon Dart.- 9. ‘The Olympics Do Not Understand Canada’: Canada and the Rise of Olympic Protests; Christine M. O’Bonsawin’10. The Atos Games’: Protest, the Paralympics of 2012 and the New Politics of Disablement; Stephen Wagg.- 11. ‘Messing about on the river.’; Trenton Oldfield and the Possibilities of Sports Protest; Jon Dart.- 12. Sochi 2014 Olympics: Accommodation and Resistance; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.- 13. An anatomy of resistance: the popular committees of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil; Christopher Gaffney.

Examines sport and political protest at a global level Offers transnational and interdisciplinary case studies Covers social protests relating to race, environmentalism, social injustice and gender