Sport and secessionism / edited by Mariann Vaczi and Alan Bairner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaczi, Mariann, editor.

Bairner, Alan, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in sport, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mariann Vaczi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA and author of Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015). Alan Bairneris Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (Routledge, 2016).

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Sport and the Unfinished Irish Revolution / Alan Bairner

Chapter 2: Sport and secessionism in Scotland / Stuart Whigham

Chapter 3: Speaking for Wales: Sport and secessionism in a small nation / John Harris

Chapter 4: A game of lions and devils: sport as a driver and inhibitor of Flemish secession / Arnout Geeraert, Edith Drieskens and Bart Maddens

Chapter 5: The Tug of War of Nationalisms: Agonic Sports for Basque-Spanish Relations / Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 6: Visions of Building, Specters of Collapse: Alternative Routes to Secessionism in Catalonia / Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 7: Football in Corsica: From the pride of being French to the desire not to be? / Didier Rey

Chapter 8: Living Through Defeat: Hungarian-Romanian Relations through Szekler Hockey / Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 9: Two Styles of Engagement: Kurds and Football in Turkey / Ömer Turan

Chapter 10: Narratives of nationalist politics and sport in Sindh / Sahar Gul and Alan Bairner

Chapter 11: Assembling the Diasporic Nation; Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup / Jonathan Harris

Chapter 12: Sport and secessionism in Biafra / Johnny Precious Ogbah

Chapter 13: Identity and Sport in Hong Kong Under One Country, Two Systems' / Brian Bridges and Glos Ho

Chapter 14: "One China with Respective Interpretations" No more?

the struggle between China/PRC and Taiwan/ROC in sport

Chapter 15: The Montreal Hockey Nation: Ethnic and/or Civic Attachments? / Jack Jedwab.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 29, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Sport and secessionism

ISBN:

9780367356569

0367356562

9781000215755

100021575X

9781000215656

1000215652

1000215857

9781000215854

Publisher Number:

40030324273

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Restricted for use by site license.