Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal

Pitch Battles

Sport, Racism and Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

BlackLivesMatter protests and campaigns for gender equality highlight how systemic racism and inequality have for so long been inextricably intertwined with sport. No more so than the 'Stop the Seventy Tour' campaign led by Peter Hain which forced the unprecedented cancellation of the whites-only South African cricket tour of England in 1970.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615237
• ISBN-10: 1786615231
• Artikelnr.: 60642985

Autorenporträt

Peter Hain spent his childhood in South Africa. After his anti-apartheid parents were jailed, banned and forced into exile in Britain, he led campaigns to stop all-white Springbok and other all-white sports tours, later becoming a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister, then a member of the House of Lords and author of over twenty books. André Odendaal is Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape. A former first-class cricketer and anti-apartheid activist, he is author or co-author of a dozen books on the social history of sport and the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Hain Stopped Play'
2. Empire and the British roots of sports apartheid
3. A matter of life and death: Sport and rebellion
4. SANROC in exile: Intensifying the sports boycott
5. SACOS and the revival of the sports struggle inside South Africa
6. Preparing to govern: Struggle, disjuncture and new strategies for sport
in South Africa
7. Sport and nation-building: The final push for national liberation and
democracy, 1989-96
8.  Making sense of sport and globalisation today
Epilogue