1st Edition

Sport and Secessionism

Edited By Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner Copyright 2021
270 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world. Investigating a wide range of cases, the book explores key themes including nationalism, nation building, state-region antagonisms, independence movements, identity and ethnic politics, sovereignty and autonomy processes, all through the lens of sport. Sports... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Sport and the Unfinished Irish Revolution
Alan Bairner

Chapter 2: Sport and secessionism in Scotland
Stuart Whigham

Chapter 3: Speaking for Wales: Sport and secessionism in a small nation
John Harris

Chapter 4: A game of lions and devils: sport as a driver and inhibitor of Flemish secession
Arnout Geeraert, Edith Drieskens and Bart Maddens

Chapter 5: The Tug of War of Nationalisms: Agonic Sports for Basque-Spanish Relations
Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 6: Visions of Building, Specters of Collapse: Alternative Routes to Secessionism in Catalonia
Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 7: Football in Corsica: From the pride of being French to the desire not to be?
Didier Rey

Chapter 8: Living Through Defeat: Hungarian-Romanian Relations through Szekler Hockey
Mariann Vaczi

Chapter 9: Two Styles of Engagement: Kurds and Football in Turkey
Ă–mer Turan

Chapter 10: Narratives of nationalist politics and sport in Sindh
Sahar Gul and Alan Bairner

Chapter 11: Assembling the Diasporic Nation; Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup
Jonathan Harris

Chapter 12: Sport and secessionism in Biafra
Johnny Precious Ogbah

Chapter 13: "One China with Respective Interpretations" No more? - the struggle between China/PRC and Taiwan/ROC in sport
Ying Chiang and Tzu-hsuan Chen

Chapter 14: The Montreal Hockey Nation: Ethnic and/or Civic Attachments?
Jack Jedwab

Biography

Mariann Vaczi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA and author of Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015).

Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (Routledge, 2016).