The two Koreas and the politics of global sport / by Brian Bridges.
In ordinary circumstances, one could be forgiven for assuming that sport unites rather than divides people. But, as this first in-depth study of inter-Korean sporting life and competition over more than six decades clearly demonstrates, sport has in fact been held hostage to the ups and downs of int...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Sport, Nationalism and International Relations
- Tradition, Colonialism and New Statehood in Korea
- Into the International Arena
- The Seoul Olympics
- Reaction and Reconciliation
- Cooling Down
- Sporting Systems Today
- Lessons From Other Divided Nations
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.