1st Edition
The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events Roving Colonialism
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 ovement and Circassian Activism: Colonial Double-backing of the Sochi Olympics and Russian Nation Building [Salima Bhimani] 8. Egyptian Football Ultras and the January 25th Revolution: Anti-Colonial Masculinities and Patriarchal State Terrorism [Manal Hamzeh and Heather Sykes] 9. Decolonizing Sporting Homonationalisms: From Complicity to Solidarity [Heather Sykes] 10. Glossary 11. Abbreviations
Biography
Heather Sykes is an Associate Professor of Physical Education at OISE - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education -at the University of Toronto, Canada. Heather researches issues of sexuality in sport and physical education through the lenses of poststructural, postcolonial, queer and feminist theories. Her book entitled Queer Bodies explored homophobia, transphobia and fat phobia in Canadian physical education, raising ethical questions about how society constructs ideals about 'healthy' and 'athletic' bodies. Heather has been co-editor of the journal Curriculum Inquiry and is involved in the North American Society for Sport Sociology.
