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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155120503321

Autore

Sykes Heather Jane <1962-, >

Titolo

The sexual and gender politics of sport mega-events : roving colonialism / / Heather Sykes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-77628-6

1-317-69001-X

1-317-69000-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 pages)

Collana

Routledge critical studies in sport

Disciplina

796.069

306.483

Soggetti

Hosting of sporting events - Social aspects

Sports tournaments - Social aspects

Special events - Social aspects

Sports - Social aspects

Sex discrimination in sports

Discrimination in sports

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The sexual and gender politics of sport mega-events : roving colonialism / Heather Sykes -- 2. Methodology / Heather Sykes -- 3. Gay pride on stolen land : homonationalism and settler colonialism at the Vancouver Olympics / Heather Sykes -- 4. Gay/lesbian asylum and the pride house : imperialist settler homonationalism at the Vancouver Olympics / Heather Sykes -- 5. London Olympics, Islamophobia and English homonationalism / Heather Sykes -- 6. 'Pot of blood' : Sochi Olympics and the Circassian genocide / Heather Sykes and Manal Hamzeh -- 7. The no Sochi movement and Circassian activism : colonial double-backing of the Sochi Olympics and Russian nation building / Salima Bhimani -- 8. Egyptian football Ultras and the January 25 revolution : anticolonial masculinities and patriarchal state terrorism / Manal Hamzeh and Heather Sykes -- 9. Decolonizing sporting homonationalisms : from complicity to solidarity / Heather Sykes.