Sport and Secessionism
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Sport and Secessionism

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sport and Secessionism

About this book

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world. Investigating a wide range of cases, the book explores key themes including nationalism, nation building, state-region antagonisms, independence movements, identity and ethnic politics, sovereignty and autonomy processes, all through the lens of sport.

Sports are uniquely positioned to shed light on secessionist politics due to their pervasiveness in society, and their ability to absorb, reflect and produce political projections. The book presents analyses of a wide range of geographical, cultural and political contexts in which sports are deployed to pursue regional independence, or greater sovereignty and autonomy, and explores the dual processes of sub-national identity construction and state sovereignty deconstruction. The book includes fourteen cases from such diverse parts of the world as Ireland, Taiwan, Turkey, Catalonia, Biafra, Canada and the UK, among others.

Offering a unique perspective on an important geopolitical issue, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport and politics, the sociology of sport, political science, political geography, nationalism studies or international history.

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Yes, you can access Sport and Secessionism by Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner, Mariann Vaczi,Alan Bairner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Geopolitics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Sport and the unfinished Irish Revolution
  10. 2 Sport and secessionism in Scotland
  11. 3 Speaking for Wales: sport and secessionism in a small nation
  12. 4 A game of lions and devils: sport as a driver and inhibitor of Flemish secession
  13. 5 The tug of war of nationalisms: agonic sports for Basque–Spanish relations
  14. 6 Visions of building, specters of collapse: alternative routes to secessionism in Catalonia
  15. 7 Football in Corsica: from the pride of being French to the desire not to be?
  16. 8 Living through defeat: Hungarian–Romanian relations through Szekler hockey
  17. 9 Two styles of engagement: Kurds and football in Turkey
  18. 10 Narratives of nationalist politics and sport in Sindh
  19. 11 Assembling the diasporic nation: Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup
  20. 12 Sport and secessionism in Biafra
  21. 13 “One China with respective interpretations” no more? The struggle between China/PRC and Taiwan/ROC in sport
  22. 14 The Montreal hockey nation: ethnic and/or civic attachments?
  23. Index