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World of Sport
World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history. Critically probing existing studies and offering new insights, this volume demonstrates that while sport was a national and international phenomenon, it was invariably constructed transnationally. Taking in topics ranging from the dissemination of football codes to transpacific surfing cultures, and the touring lives of baseball and hockey players to the contact zones of international competition, it emphasises the importance of transnational perspectives in the way people around the globe experience sport. Like other forms of popular cultu...
The Making of a Global FIFA
In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA’s president in a two-round election, defeating the incumbent Stanley Rous. The story told by Havelange himself describes a private odyssey in which the protagonist crisscrosses two thirds of the world canvassing for votes and challenging the institutional status quo. For many scholars, Havelange’s triumph changed FIFA’s (International Federation of Football Association) identity, gradually turning it into a global and immensely wealthy institution. Conversely, the election can be analyzed as a historical event. It can be thought of as a political window by means of which the international dynamic of a specific moment in the Cold War can be perceived. In this regard, this book seeks to understand which actors were involved in the election, how the networks were shaped, and which political agents were directly engaged in the campaign.
Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport
Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival material to uncover histories of women’s work in sport, from swimming teachers in nineteenth-century England to national sports administrators in twentieth-century Côte d’Ivoire, and many places in between. Their work has been varied, holding roles as teachers, wives, and secretaries in sporting contexts around the world, often with diplomatic functions—including at the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Finally, this collection shows how gender initiatives have developed in sporting institutions in Europe and international sport federations today. With a foreword by Grégory Quin and afterword by Anaïs Bohuon, this is a pioneering study into gender and women’s work in global sport.
Global and Transnational Sport
The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports – baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse – across the two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few years in the very present. Drawing on the methods of history, international relations, political science, and sociology, the contributing authors examine various theories of sporting globalization. The chapters take a balanced look at the concepts of the nation state and the connected world, which are the substantive core around which modern human society is ordered. Th...
Football and Fascism
Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the ...
Hungary as a Sport Superpower
What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football.
Creating a United Europe of Football
This book provides a historical study of the beginnings of the UEFA, demonstrating how the formation of the organisation was linked to the decentralisation experienced by FIFA, the world governing body of football. Vonnard examines why administrators created an association that transcended the barriers of the Cold War, and focused on the development of a network that promoted football outside the constraints of international politics. Finally, he emphasises the role UEFA played in the Europeanisation of the people’s game, and in the early years of the European integration process. The research is based on a rich body of new archival material from the UEFA and FIFA Documentation Centres, and various European football federations, as well as reports from a number of leading newspapers of the era, and interviews with football personalities of the 1950s. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the history of sport, international relations, and European studies
Recompositions des espaces sportifs soviétiques et post-soviétiques (années 1980 - années 1990)
Sommaire : Recompositions des espaces sportifs soviétiques et post-soviétiques (années 1980-1990) ; « How much are you ready to pay? » : la commercialisation des sportifs soviétiques vers la France au temps de la perestroïka ; Des fissures dans la glace. Ruptures et continuités durant la transition postsoviétique du hockey sur glace ; « Les vétérans n’y ont pas leur place » : Le triathlon entre pratique ouverte et pratique d’élite de l’Union soviétique à la Russie contemporaine ; Des voyous de la perestroïka aux héros du Maïdan : le développement de la sous-culture des fans en Ukraine, de la période soviétique aux années 2010 ; Népotisme, promotion d’un roman national et valorisation d’une masculinité violente : les usages du sport en Tchétchénie sous Ramzan Kadyrov.
Sciences sociales et sport Numéro 25
Sommaire : Qu’est-ce qu’une règle sportive ? Retour sur un oubli d’Elias : le sport devant le droit ; Heurs et malheurs d’une recherche doctorale entre approches juridique et sociologique sur la sécurisation des événements sportifs de nature ; Tous sportifs ? Toutes sportives ? Genre et perception de la sportivité chez des élèves de terminale ; Une musculature sous influences : construction sociale des normes corporelles chez les CrossFiteuses ; « Est-ce que moi je peux me dire hip-hop ? » Des jeunes femmes des classes supérieures dans une formation en danse hip-hop ; La sociologie française du sport et l’introduction des travaux de Norbert Elias et Eric Dunning
Sciences sociales et sport Numéro 26
Quand l’affirmation du mouvement en faveur de la voile pour tous transforme le monde de la voile en arène sociale : le cas du Finistère dans les années 1980 ; Les modes d’engagement des dirigeants bénévoles en association sportive : entre conversion de la carrière sportive, stratégies familiales et cooptation ; Etre gros·se et s’engager dans une activité physique. Carrières de pratiquant·es dans des espaces sportifs non médicaux ; De Marc Batta… à Clément Turpin. L’arbitrage français au football, du semi-professionnalisme au professionnalisme (de 1995 à aujourd’hui) ; Le football des paysans. L’apprentissage d’un sport au village en Vaucluse (années 1920-1950) ; Puissance et domination dans les Public schools (1700-1850). Une étude de cas et une discussion conceptuelle.
