Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1963056
Leanne Blaney
{"title":"Sport, the media and Ireland: interdisciplinary perspectives","authors":"Leanne Blaney","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1963056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1963056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"132 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42194560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1963827
Cam Mallett, M. Sikes
{"title":"Paralympic protest: athlete activism, apartheid South Africa, and the international sport boycott in British para sport, 1979–1981","authors":"Cam Mallett, M. Sikes","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1963827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1963827","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In October 1979, the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF) imposed a lifetime ban on Maggy Jones, a medal-winning British Paralympian. Her crime: distributing leaflets about the healthcare disparities in apartheid South Africa. Two years later, Bernard Leach, the British record holder in the freestyle swim, withdrew from the International Stoke Mandeville Games in protest when he learned that South Africa planned to send a team. ISMGF administrators took a softer line towards Leach, however, because the swimmer partnered with the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) to transform his withdrawal into a public relations weapon against Paralympic administrators. In recent years, historians have expanded our knowledge of the external struggle against apartheid, one of the most sustained and significant transnational movements of the twentieth century. This struggle, a notable antecedent of the Black Lives Matter movement, played out in all realms of sport, yet little has been written about campaigns of anti-apartheid solidarity within the Paralympic movement. This study of Paralympic protests and the politics of public critique adds to this literature, centres athlete agency in British disability sport, and offers an important perspective on sport, race, and protest to better understand the Black Lives Matter movement.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"347 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44928772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1963059
A. Harvey
{"title":"The emergence of football: sport, culture and society in the nineteenth century","authors":"A. Harvey","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1963059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1963059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43281950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399
A. Carter
{"title":"Athletic philistines? Edmond Warre and his Etonian sporting masters","authors":"A. Carter","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although athleticism arguably rescued English public schools from chaos in the early nineteenth-century, concerns were soon raised that too much attention was paid to sport at the expense of learning. Subsequently, the sporting philistine became thought of as a self-perpetuating type within public schools, with masters who cared for nothing but sport producing boys who thought likewise. Edmond Warre, who taught at Eton from 1860 to 1905, and was headmaster from 1884, is often cited as the leading example of this type, building up a group of sporting masters who made Eton a dominant force in sport, but achieving little else. However, this paper argues this view does Warre and his colleagues a disservice, and that his educational achievements were downplayed because of Eton’s internal power struggles. While Eton, and other public schools, produced philistines aplenty, the best sportsmen were less likely to be among their ranks because they were increasingly motivated to study hard in order to qualify for university, and take advantage of the sporting opportunities offered there. Sporting and academic excellence were thus increasingly found in the same pupils, and sporting masters had a vested interest in providing their charges with the classical education required for Oxbridge entrance.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"183 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59999629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-07-11DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481
G. Kohe, Jamie O. Smith, J. Hughson
{"title":"#hoops #basketballhistory @Hoops_Heritage: examining possibilities for basketball heritage within the context of higher education, critical museology and digital redirections","authors":"G. Kohe, Jamie O. Smith, J. Hughson","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Until recently, investment into sport heritage in the United Kingdom has been sporadic, variable and inconsistent. This is particularly the case for sports conventionally not considered significant to popular national interest. In the UK, this classification extends to basketball. The situation is changing, and development of the nation's sport heritage is progressing. However, support for sport heritage cannot be guaranteed and continued efforts need to be individually and collectively made to advance its causes. Taking the development of the National Basketball Heritage Centre (NBHC) located at the University of Worcester in the United Kingdom as its focus, this paper interrogates how sport heritage practices and progress might align with the nexus of shifts in higher education (in which the NBHC resides), critical museology and digital redirections. This intersectional paradigm may yield exciting opportunities for sport heritage thought, production and action. Namely, by generating spaces of analysis, reforming modalities of production, and inspiring critical advocacy in representational praxis. Focusing on community identity and youth development, we envision the NBHC as a more than archival tome/ tomb, but as a site of transformative social inquiry that (virtually) connects the physical practices of the past with politics of the present and beyond.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"354 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886
L. Taylor
{"title":"Confronting silences in the archive: developing sporting collections with oral histories","authors":"L. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Neither archives nor museums are neutral. They reflect particular sets of priorities: those of the institution; the collectors and curators within them; and those of their intended audiences. In the context of sport, gender is a key influence on these priorities. Yet sporting archives are relatively silent about women's historical involvement in sport. A number of Collaborative Doctoral Partnership projects delivered through Sporting Heritage use oral history as a methodology for academic research and as an intervention in the archive, expanding collections and giving voice to otherwise under-represented groups. In this paper, I focus on issues relating to oral history in heritage settings and in the academic practice of history: the history of the methodology itself and its implications for a shared research agenda, including the extent to which oral history can – and should – be used as a method of historical recovery. In sport heritage and sport history. where men and the masculine have dominated the academic discipline and the practice of collecting, I consider the gendering of oral history, and its implications for such collections. Lastly, I reflect on the critical opportunities offered by this methodological approach, as well as the challenges.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"293 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221
Derek Barnard
{"title":"Learie Constantine and race relations in Britain and the Empire","authors":"Derek Barnard","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"435 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194
N. Riseman
{"title":"A history of transgender women in Australian Sports, 1976–2017","authors":"N. Riseman","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although debates about transgender women in sport have been prominent in recent years, there is a much longer history of transgender participation in sport. This article uses oral history interviews and media to examine Australia’s history of transgender women’s participation in sport since the late 1970s. It explores the public debates around gender, sex, the body, and ‘fair play discourse’ as expressed around specific transgender athletes. It also examines the lived experience of those transgender sportswomen and analyses how they used gender presentation to affirm their femininity. Indeed, gender presentation and transgender (in)visibility heavily influenced whether teammates, opponents, sporting associations, and the media accepted transgender athletes in their affirmed gender. The presence of transgender women in sport consistently exposed anxieties around gender, sex, and the body because they exposed rigid understandings of gender binarism. Examining the long history of transgender women in Australian sport reveals how longstanding debates have played out in a variety of settings, with transgender athletes regularly searching for ways to affirm their gender and navigate sporting communities.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"280 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47391361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-28DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096
Yohann Fortune
{"title":"Emil Zatopek in the pantheon of long-distance running: the creation of a sporting myth","authors":"Yohann Fortune","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Like numerous sportspeople, Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is one of those figures who, through their achievements and dramatic life trajectories, succeed in entering the collective memory as heroes whose names are passed down through the generations. At the turn of the 1940s-1950s, his performances were widely hailed in the sports press when he became famous at the Helsinki Olympic Games (1952) by winning three gold medals, and the man himself gave rise to popular fervour and identification. In the context of the Cold War, propaganda was quick to focus on him, triggering a form of heroisation which would lead, over time, to transfiguring the champion and creating the myth that is still alive today. Based on press articles, biographies, documentaries and propaganda works, as well as on advertisements, novels, comic books and other cultural material related to Emil Zatopek from the 1950s to the present day, this article invites reflection upon the rewriting processes inherent in the creation of the sporting myth and aims to grasp any of its possible invariants. It thus explains how the sportsperson goes successively from the status of champion to that of hero and then myth, and defines the criteria which correspond to each status.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"257 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41556037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848
Gerardo Rebanal Martínez
{"title":"Golf in St Andrews, the critical years, c. 1880-1914","authors":"Gerardo Rebanal Martínez","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a consequence of its historic role in the world of golf St Andrews had been the object of close scrutiny from historians and golf writers alike. Both have largely centred their attention on the history of golf clubs -such as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews [later referred to as R&A]- or on great characters, like Thomas Morris, a true giant of the game. However, less sparkling ingredients -for example the activities of locals, or visitors, often not affiliated to any particular golf club, have been a kind of historiographic poor relation. This article is not focused on material or biographical aspects, but instead on social and structural features. If historians have argued whether golf had evolved on a more unrestrained basis in Scotland than in England, they usually agree in considering St Andrews a kind of unrestricted golfing republic. The chosen years were critical because the place called The Links, where golf at St Andrews had always been played, became a hotly disputed property, coveted by the R&A and the Town Council. In the end they managed to consolidate peace agreements, which, with subsequent adjustments, have defined what golf in St Andrews is today.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"41 1","pages":"524 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44214502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}