Sport and Secessionism

Mariann Vaczi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA and author of Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015).Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (Routledge, 2016).

• Introduction.  1. Sport and the Unfinished Irish Revolution.  2. Sport and secessionism in Scotland.  3. Speaking for Wales: Sport and secessionism in a small nation.  4. A game of lions and devils: sport as a driver and inhibitor of Flemish secession.  5. The Tug of War of Nationalisms: Agonic Sports for Basque-Spanish Relations.  6. Visions of Building, Specters of Collapse: Alternative Routes to Secessionism in Catalonia.  7. Football in Corsica: From the pride of being French to the desire not to be?  8. Living Through Defeat: Hungarian-Romanian Relations through Szekler Hockey.  9. Two Styles of Engagement: Kurds and Football in Turkey.  10. Narratives of nationalist politics and sport in Sindh.  11. Assembling the Diasporic Nation; Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup.  12. Sport and secessionism in Biafra.  13. "One China with Respective Interpretations" No more? - the struggle between China/PRC and Taiwan/ROC in sport.  14. The Montreal Hockey Nation: Ethnic and/or Civic Attachments?