ISBN:
9780415469319
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Print version South Africa and the Global Game : Football, Apartheid and Beyond
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
South Africa--Foreign relations
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent team of scholars, this special issue and book aims to examine the importance of football in South African society, revealing how the black oppression transformed a colonial game into a force for politic
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; South Africa and the Global Game; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series page; Abstracts; Introduction; Part 1: Past is prologue: history of football in South Africa; 1. Football as code: the social diffusion of 'soccer' in South Africa; 2. White football in South Africa: empire, apartheid and change, 1892-1977; 3. A biography of Darius Dhlomo: transnational footballer in the era of apartheid; 4. Women and gender in South African soccer: a brief history; Part 2: Football culture after apartheid: local and transnational dynamics
Description / Table of Contents:
5. 'You must support Chieft: Pirates already have two white fans!': race and racial discourse in South African football fandom6. 'It wasn't that I did not like South African football': media, history and biography; 7. Soccer in a rugby town: restructuring football in Stellenbosch; 8. Differing trajectories: football development and patterns of player migration in South Africa and Ghana; Part 3: The 2010 World Cup: challenges and opportunities; 9. Football's tsars: proprietorship, corporatism and politics in the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Sports as cultural diplomacy: the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa's foreign policy11. World Cup 2010: Africa's turn or the turn on Africa?; 12. The 2010 FIFA World Cup: critical voices from below; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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