The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism
Heather Sykes, "The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism "
English | ISBN: 1138318493 | 2018 | 184 pages | EPUB | 723 KB
English | ISBN: 1138318493 | 2018 | 184 pages | EPUB | 723 KB
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts―the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution―the book examines sporting 'homonationalism' and anti-colonial resistance.
The first part discusses different moments of ‘homonationalism’ in sport. The second part explores how indigenous and anti-colonial protests against mega-sport events lead to different views about gender and sexuality politics in sport. It offers a critical counter-narrative to the view that gay and lesbian inclusion in global sporting events is simply a matter of universal human rights. The book calls for LGBT social movements in sport to move away from complicity with neoliberalism, nationalism and colonial-racial logics, particularly Islamophobia, toward a decolonial politics of solidarity.
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