1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris,
Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide
campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South
Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic
Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism
of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated
against social priorities in Mexico, the host of the 1968 Games.
These events contributed significantly to the rejection of the idea
that sports are apolitical, and stimulated the scholarly study of
sport across the social sciences.
Leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games, similar dynamics were
played out across the globe, while a campaign was underway to
boycott the ?Genocide Olympics?. The volume, To Remember is to
Resist, came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights
and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years
after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening
Ceremony.
The contributions to this volume capture the memories of
activists who were "on the ground" using sport as a site for the
struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of
past and current human rights movements in sport.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport
in Society.
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