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Sport and Protest - Global Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Sport and Protest - Global Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
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Sporting mega-events habitually spawn protests from local groups
discommoded by the building of new infrastructure, environmental
lobbies contesting the long-term legacies of such events, and
expressions of outrage at the expenditure of public funds on events
often restricted to an elite selection of participants and
spectators. Are these protest movements ever successful in
preventing sporting events from taking place or in modifying their
nature, or even in drawing attention to social issues? Or are they
inevitably destined to be ignored in the popular fervour and
financial windfall that accompanies such events? Similarly,
sporting events have occasionally been the site of iconic moments
of political protest. Tommie Smith's and John Carlos' 'Black Power'
salute at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, for example, remains one of
the abiding symbols of resistance to oppression expressed in a
sporting context. What is it about sport that lends itself to these
kinds of protests? Are these protests effective in accelerating
change in society or does the sporting context ultimately serve to
trivialize important social issues? Here we endeavour to respond to
some of these questions and thereby illuminate the evolving
political, economic, environmental and cultural implications of
sport in society. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue in The International Journal of The
History of Sport.
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