Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives

Author:   Stuart Whigham (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   236
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stuart Whigham (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9781032680132


ISBN 10:   103268013
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory 1. Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism 2. Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe 3. Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers 4. Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom 5. Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport 6. ’I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil 7. Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s 8. Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance 9. Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity 10. Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 2012 11. Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 12. They are not ‘Team New Zealand’ or the ‘New Zealand’ Warriors! An exploration of pseudo-nationalism in New Zealand sporting franchises 13. Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism 14. Guerrilla patriotism and mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland

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Stuart Whigham is Senior Lecturer in Sport, Coaching and Physical Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests revolve around the sociology and politics of sport, with a particular interest in the study of national identity, nationalism and sport; the politics of sport and sporting events; the politics of the Commonwealth Games; the sociology and politics of Scottish sport; and, sport and the Scottish diaspora.

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