LEADER 03398oam 2200649I 450 001 9910783957303321 005 20230617010102.0 010 $a1-135-77344-0 010 $a1-135-77345-9 010 $a1-280-04951-0 010 $a0-203-50589-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203505892 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255163 035 $a(EBL)183105 035 $a(OCoLC)808020078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11247389 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10298506 035 $a(PQKB)11777159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC183105 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL183105 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10093749 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL4951 035 $a(OCoLC)56418892 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255163 100 $a20180331d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of South African cricket /$fJon Gemmell 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 1 $aSport in the global society,$x1368-9789 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7146-8284-5 311 $a0-7146-5346-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-250) and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aIsolation (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 330 $aThe Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.Sport in South Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced by the social and economic force of sport.Focusing on the sports boycott as a political strategy, Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historica 410 0$aSport in the global society. 606 $aCricket$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aSports and state$zSouth Africa 615 0$aCricket$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSports and state 676 $a796.358/0968 686 $a76.12$2bcl 700 $aGemmell$b Jon$f1965,$01548490 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783957303321 996 $aThe politics of South African cricket$93805568 997 $aUNINA