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Pitch Battles

- Sport, Racism and Resistance
Af: Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal Engelsk Paperback

Pitch Battles

- Sport, Racism and Resistance
Af: Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal Engelsk Paperback
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“There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.”
— Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969

Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.

With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.
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“There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.”
— Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969

Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.

With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 512
ISBN-13: 9781786615237
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1786615231
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2021
Længde: 40mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 157mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2021
Forfatter(e): Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal
Forfatter(e) Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal


Kategori Sociologi: sport og fritid


ISBN-13 9781786615237


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 512


Udgave


Længde 40mm


Bredde 234mm


Højde 157mm


Udg. Dato 1 sep 2021


Oplagsdato 1 sep 2021


Forlag Rowman & Littlefield International

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