Introduction: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory
Stuart Whigham
1. Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism
Alan Bairner and Anthony May
2. Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe
Alec S. Hurley
3. Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers
Andy Chiu
4. Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom
Regina Weber
5. Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport
Tom Gibbons
6. ’I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil
Gijs van Campenhout and Henk van Houtum
7. Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s
Ryan Murtha, Conor Heffernan and Thomas Hunt
8. Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance
Jack Black
9. Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity
Sine Agergaard and Verena Lenneis
10. Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 2012
Alison Forbes
11 Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang
Jung Woo Lee
12. They are not ‘Team New Zealand’ or the ‘New Zealand’ Warriors! An exploration of pseudo-nationalism in New Zealand sporting franchises
Damion Sturm, Tom Kavanagh and Robert E. Rinehart
13. Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism
Mateusz Grodecki
14. Guerrilla patriotism and mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland
Przemysław Nosal, Radosław Kossakowski and Wojciech Woźniakc
Biography
Stuart Whigham is Senior Lecturer in Sport, Coaching and Physical Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests revolve around the sociology and politics of sport, with a particular interest in the study of national identity, nationalism and sport; the politics of sport and sporting events; the politics of the Commonwealth Games; the sociology and politics of Scottish sport; and, sport and the Scottish diaspora.
