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

• Autore: Sykes Heather Jane <1962-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 pages)
• Disciplina: 796.069; 306.483
• Soggetto topico: Hosting of sporting events - Social aspects; Sports tournaments - Social aspects; Special events - Social aspects; Sports - Social aspects; Sex discrimination in sports; Discrimination in sports
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sexual and gender politics of sport mega-events
• ISBN: 1-315-77628-6; 1-317-69001-X; 1-317-69000-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155120503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge critical studies in sport.