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

India v Pakistan: A Bat & Ball War (1999); Branded a Rebel (CNN documentary on 1983 WI tour of S.Africa) Bobby Fisher against the world (2011)

Reading

Ramu Sharma "The Competitive Syndrome" India International Centre Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 2, Sports through the looking glass (JUNE 1982), pp. 101-106

Allen Guttmann "The Cold War and the Olympics" International Journal Vol. 43, No. 4, Sport in World Politics (Autumn, 1988), pp. 554-568

Douglas Booth "Hitting Apartheid for Six? The politics of the South African sports boycott" Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 38, No. 3, Sport and Politics (Jul., 2003), pp. 477-493

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)