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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)