Add to ORKGThis paper explores how sports were used by totalitarian regimes to achieve the goals of the state. The three case studies involve the totalitarian governments of interwar Europe: Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Francoism. Three main trends were identified. Sports were used to improve their nation’s health and fitness for military preparation, construct a national identity, and as a diplomatic tool to improve their international reputation. I also explore what ideological themes lent themselves to construction of these three specific goals
Violence exercised for political purposes transcends national interests very clearly. The opportunis...
The aim of this paper is to depict the social and political dimension of football and its role in th...
peer-reviewedHow often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, t...
International audienceAbstract-Sports and aesthetics of the body in the totalitarian states. The aim...
The focus of the study is the growing involvement of the British state in sport from the early 1960s...
This thesis examines the Foreign Office's involvement in international sport from the end of th...
Sport has changed dramatically dnring the past 100 years. It was trans- formed from a leisure activi...
When you go to a football match one of the first things that you will undoubtedly notice are the ult...
Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became...
PhDThe objective of this thesis is to be the first systematic study of the political instrumentaliz...
Given the contemporary growth of ‘populist’ political parties and movements in a number of highly-de...
Work is based on two pairs of case studies; the first pair is focused on an analysis of the internal...
The purpose of the project is to juxtapose how politics and government structure shape the world of ...
The concept of ‘sportswashing’ serves as a short-hand way of criticising non-democratic regimes for ...
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 cas...
Violence exercised for political purposes transcends national interests very clearly. The opportunis...
The aim of this paper is to depict the social and political dimension of football and its role in th...
peer-reviewedHow often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, t...
International audienceAbstract-Sports and aesthetics of the body in the totalitarian states. The aim...
The focus of the study is the growing involvement of the British state in sport from the early 1960s...
This thesis examines the Foreign Office's involvement in international sport from the end of th...
Sport has changed dramatically dnring the past 100 years. It was trans- formed from a leisure activi...
When you go to a football match one of the first things that you will undoubtedly notice are the ult...
Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became...
PhDThe objective of this thesis is to be the first systematic study of the political instrumentaliz...
Given the contemporary growth of ‘populist’ political parties and movements in a number of highly-de...
Work is based on two pairs of case studies; the first pair is focused on an analysis of the internal...
The purpose of the project is to juxtapose how politics and government structure shape the world of ...
The concept of ‘sportswashing’ serves as a short-hand way of criticising non-democratic regimes for ...
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 cas...
Violence exercised for political purposes transcends national interests very clearly. The opportunis...
The aim of this paper is to depict the social and political dimension of football and its role in th...
peer-reviewedHow often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, t...