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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783957303321

Autore

Gemmell Jon <1965, >

Titolo

The politics of South African cricket / / Jon Gemmell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-77344-0

1-135-77345-9

1-280-04951-0

0-203-50589-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Sport in the global society, , 1368-9789

Classificazione

76.12

Disciplina

796.358/0968

Soggetti

Cricket - Political aspects - South Africa

Sports and state - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; The Problems of Defining 'Political Science'; The Ties that Bind: The Relationship between Sport and Politics; On a Sticky Wicket: The Ethos of Cricket; Programme and Practice: Apartheid and Sport; Banishing Tradition, or Prejudice? Politics and the Winding Road to Multiracial Cricket; 'No Normal Sport in an Abnormal Society'; Isolating the Disease: International Politics and the Arguments for Sanctions against South Africa

Isolation (of Sorts): South Africa's Withdrawal from the CommonwealthA Defining Moment: The Basil D'Oliveira Affair; Cricket and the Actual Institution of Politics: The 1970 South African Tour to England; Treachery and Despair: The Rebel Tours; Conclusion: The Role of Sport in Influencing Change in South Africa; Postscript: Constructing the Rainbow Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.Sport in South Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced by the social and



economic force of sport.Focusing on the sports boycott as a political strategy, Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historica