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Sport is a relatively neglected sphere among students of political science and international relations. In South Africa, however, its political salience has long been apparent, as it became a lightning rod for opponents of apartheid.1 Several distinctive features made sport a locus of pressure for change. As Rob Nixon observes, modern international sport has a striking capacity to inspire national passions and identities, and thus to facilitate popular mobilization.2 Hence, the campaign to isolate “apartheid sport” elicited a very high level of national and international passion and participation.
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R. Nixon, Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 131–54. Of course, the “nation” invoked by sporting events remains selective and partial, experienced very differently by various segments of a country’s population — no more so than in South Africa.
See S. P. Quick, “‘Black Knight Checks White King’: The Conflict Between Avery Brundage and the African Nations over South African Membership of the IOC,” Canadian Journal of History of Sport 21 (1990), esp. pp. 20–4;
D. Macintosh, H. Cantelon, and L. McDermott, “The IOC and South Africa: A Lesson in Transnational Relations,” International Review for Sociology of Sport 28 (1993), pp. 377–83.
See also D. Macintosh, D. Greenhorn, and D. Black, “Canadian Diplomacy and the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games,” Journal of Sport History 19 (1992), pp. 26–55.
Cited in G. Jarvie, Class, Race, and Sport in South Africa’s Political Economy (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), p. 6.
See D. Lewis, “Soccer and Rugby: Popular Productions of Pleasure in South African Culture,” Southern African Political and Economic Monthly 6 (1992/1993), pp. 13–17.
See D. Booth, “Mandela and Amabokoboko: The Political and Linguistic Nationalization of South Africa?” Journal of Modern African Studies 34 (1996), pp. 459–77.
J. Hargreaves, “Theorizing Sport: An Introduction,” in J. Hargreaves, ed., Sport, Culture, and Ideology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982), p. 14. For a Gramscian interpretation of South African sport, see Jarvie, Class, Race, and Sport.
See D. A. Baldwin, “Power Analysis and World Politics: New Trends versus Old Tendencies,” World Politics 31 (1989).
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Black, D.R. (1999). “Not Cricket”: The Effects and Effectiveness of the Sport Boycott. In: Crawford, N.C., Klotz, A. (eds) How Sanctions Work. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403915917_11
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