91福利

Skip to main content Skip to navigation

w7

Sport and Politics

Topics:

Sport and Cold War - Chess, Olympic boycotts

India vs Pakistan

Sport as a tool for peace and reconciliation - Apartheid South Africa

Questions

Why is sport sometimes political?

Do sporting boycotts work?

Can sport heal political divides?

TV

(1999); (CNN documentary on 1983 WI tour of S.Africa) (2011)

Reading

Mihir Bose 'Conflicting loyalties: nationalism and religion in India-Pakistan cricket relations' in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)

Andre Odendaal 'Cricket and representations of beauty: Newlands cricket ground and the roots of apartheid in South African cricket ' in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)

Stephen Wagg and Jon Gemmell 'Cricket and international politics' in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)

Let us know you agree to cookies