Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe

by Dine, Philip; Crosson, Sean

• ISBN13: 9783039119776
• ISBN10: 303911977X
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• Copyright: 2010-09-09
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Author Biography

Philip Dine is Senior Lecturer in French at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published widely on representations of the French colonial empire, including particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children's literature to professional sport. Other published research includes a history of French rugby football, as part of a broader reflection on leisure and popular culture in France. The present volume is one of the outcomes of a thematic project on sport and identity in France and Europe for which he acted as coordinator and which was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2009). Seán Crosson is Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He teaches courses in the Huston School on Irish film, documentary, world cinema, and cinema and Vietnam. He has published widely on various aspects of Irish studies, from film to literature, and his current research concerns the representation of sport in film, from the silent to the contemporary period, the subject of several recent and forthcoming publications.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Diagrams xv
Foreword: Football and Evolving National Identity	p. xvii
Introduction: Exploring European Sporting Identities: History, Theory, Methodology	p. 1
From Dif fusion to Governance	p. 13
An Anthropological Approach to the Dif fusion of Sports: From European Models to Global Diversity	p. 15
The Governance of European Sport	p. 29
Expressions of National Identity through Impact Assessments of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games	p. 55
National Sporting Narratives	p. 77
æI Like to Have a Go at the SwanksÆ: Alf Tupper and English Society, 1945û1990	p. 79
From æSports ArditismÆ to Consensus-Building: The Ambivalences of the Italian Sporting Press under Fascism	p. 101
SpainÆs Social Values through Film:Films about Sports	p. 119
Gendered Representations	p. 141
Boxing and Masculine Identity	p. 143
California Dreaming: Surfing Culture in Mediterranean France	p. 167
Antihero as National Icon? The Contrariness of Roy Keane as Fantasy Embodiment of the æNew IrelandÆ	p. 189
Contesting and Reinventing Identities	p. 215
Representing the North: Ref lections on the Life Stories of Northern IrelandÆs Catholic Footballers	p. 217
Rediscovering Hungarian-ness: The Case of Elite Hungarian Footballers	p. 239
Cornwall and Rugby Union: Sport and Identity in a Place A
The New Sporting Europe	p. 287
Sport and Identity in Germany since Reunification	p. 289
Sport and Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union	p. 317
Europeans Writing the African æOlympianÆ	p. 333
Notes on Contributors	p. 357
Index	p. 363
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