South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond

by Alegi; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415469319
• ISBN10: 0415469317
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyondpresents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent team of scholars, this special issue and book aims to examine the importance of football in South African society, revealing how the black oppression transformed a colonial game into a force for political, cultural and social liberation. It explores how the hosting of the 2010 World Cup aims to enhance the prestige of the post-apartheid nation, to generate economic growth and stimulate Pan-African pride. Among the themes dealt with are race and racism, class and gender dynamics, social identities, mass media and culture, and globalization. This collection of original and insightful essays will appeal to specialists in African Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sport Studies, as well as to non-specialist readers seeking to inform themselves ahead of the 2010 World Cup. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Alegi/Bolsmann) Part 1: Past is Prologue History of Football in South Africa 1. The Soccerization of South Africa (Alegi)2. The Anti-Apartheid struggle at FIFA (Paul Darby, University of Ulster, and Alegi)3. White Football in South Africa's Sporting Landscape (Lloyd Hill, University of Warwick, and Bolsmann)4. The Effects of Football's Hegemony on Sport in Black Communities (Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, University of KwaZulu-Natal) Part 2: Post-Apartheid South Africa and Football: Media, Gender, and Culture 5. Youth Development and Township Football: Challenges and Opportunities (Lungile Madywabe, Azania Research and freelancereporter)6. South African Football since 1990 (Richard Maguire, Editorial Directo,r Kick Off magazine, South Africa)7. The Rise of the Women's Game: Race, Gender, and Class (Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak, University of Memphis)8. Football and Mass Media (Sean Jacobs, University of Michigan) Part 3: South Africa and the World: Contours and Contradictions 9. The Politics of the 2010 World Cup (Scarlett Cornelissen, University of Stellenbosch)10. Building a Global Nation and the Economics of 2010 (Alegi)11. Football Labor Migration to and from southern Africa: A Political Economy Analysis (Darby)12. Perceptions from Abroad and Resistance from Within (Bolsmann) Part 4: Dialogue on 2010 World Cup 13. Interview with Dennis Brutus, founder of the anti-apartheid sport movement (Alegi)14. Interview with Lucas Radebe, former captain of South Africa and Leeds United (Bolsmann)