ABSTRACT

Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport is intimately related to power and domination. Topics include the media treatment of sport, drug-taking in sport and the controversial and problematic relationship between sport and politics in Russia and South Africa.

chapter 2|32 pages

Sport, culture and ideology

chapter 5|19 pages

Women in sport in ideology

chapter 6|16 pages

Sport and youth culture

chapter 8|16 pages

Sport and drugs

chapter 10|17 pages

The politics of sport and apartheid