Chris Bolsmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 280344 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chris Bolsmann |
| NOMBRES | Chris |
| APELLIDO | Bolsmann |
| FIRMA | BOLSMANN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8131-0283 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Men's Professional Soccer in the United States
Men's professional soccer in the United States is both popular and profitable. This article offers a broad historical overview of the key factors in the development of the professional game, highlighting the continuities and changes in its organization. First, wealthy investors have consistently prioritized profit. Second, league officials regularly modify the rules—often deviating from global norms—to appeal to American spectators. Third, US pro…
The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’
Corinthian FC (1882–1938) was one of the world's most famous football clubs, despite never winning a league championship or a cup competition. At a time when association football, especially in Britain, was establishing itself as a form of commercialised entertainment with clubs organised as businesses and employing working‐class professionals, the Corinthians became the principal standard‐bearers for gentlemanly amateurism, effectively creating …
Soccer safaris’
Apartheid South Africa remains an important theme in sport history. The study of South African football has produced a handful of monographs and several research articles. In this body of literature, relatively few studies acknowledge the migratory flows of South African footballers to various levels of British football. Many of these football migrants moved to the country for employment opportunities and played the game on a recreational and pro…
Christ-Followers on Every Team, in Every Sport, in Every Nation’
North American sports ministries are a nexus for the relationship between sport, Christian fundamentalism, politics, and capitalism. These organizations have developed expansive evangelizing networks using the influential power of athletic celebrity status and institutional embedding. This article explores the nature of these organizations by focusing on the formation of Athletes in Action out of its sister ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ on …
Flashpoint
In 1981, the South African rugby team toured New Zealand, and the tour is remembered for the thousands of New Zealanders who took to the streets to demonstrate against the Springboks. Large numbers of protesters were arrested, games were interrupted, violence occurred, and two matches were canceled due to security concerns. Derek Catsam suggests the tour is “arguably the most controversial politicized sporting event or series of sporting events i…
Pitch Battles
Flouting apartheid rules
The successes recorded against apartheid sport are lauded and celebrated. These remain a touchstone for progressive social change and are considered a model for contemporary action. This paper uses Sir Stanley Matthews as a case study of an English sports superstar and household name across the footballing world, who benefitted from apartheid but also vacillated and seemingly opposed the system. Autobiographies, biographies, contemporary accounts…
Soccer Diplomacy
The book explores the nexus of the world’s most popular sport and diplomacy, as a tool of the nation-state–based diplomacy, as diplomacy of soccer as a non-state actor, and via the relationship between soccer and a variety of diplomatic actors in the subnational, national, and transnational context. Over the past century any number of states have sought to conduct diplomacy via soccer games, tournaments, and the sport’s governance structures, inc…
Heading for the big time”
This article considers the migration of South African soccer players to the North American Soccer League (NASL) between 1968 and 1984. The NASL provided South African players the opportunity to pit their skills against players from around the world. Importantly, South Africans of all racial groups could play with and against each other in North America as opposed to the strictly segregated clubs, leagues, associations, and stadiums they emerged f…
Three Clubs in Search of a City
In 2016, Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) celebrated its birth before a public audience at Union Station. The club’s posturing on the day, and in its efforts more broadly, was that it offered the local market something new. Thus, the founding of LAFC presents a timely moment to fill in the scholarly gap. This article uses LAFC as an entry point for exploring the contours of professional soccer in Los Angeles over the previous half-century. It fol…
A History of American Sports in 100 Objects
Book Review| October 01 2017 A History of American Sports in 100 Objects Murphy, Cait. A History of American Sports in 100 Objects. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Pp. 357. Photographs. $29.99, pb. Chris Bolsmann Chris Bolsmann California State University, Northridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 520–521. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.3.0520 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
They Are Fine Specimens of the Illustrious Indian Settler
Sporting contacts between the India and diasporic Indian community in South Africa were part of a broader range of links between the two countries. In this article, we consider association football tours between both countries from 1914 to 1955 against the backdrop of increased racism and segregation in South Africa and the anti-colonial movement in India. We draw from a range of sources, including archives, unpublished reports and newspaper arti…
Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)
They are able to play football in South Africa’
From the end of the nineteenth century South Africa had become a popular touring destination for British and colonial sports teams. Tours in the popular sport of cricket, football and rugby were very popular. These tours tested local opposition against foreign competition, brought in revenue to local and national sports associations and contributed to the development of a white South African identity. Austrian football teams were extensive travel…
Introduction
Taking South African sport seriously
Identity and Nation in African Football
One of the consequences of the FIFA World Cup held in South Africa in 2010 was the publication of a handful of popular and academic books that consider football on the African continent.1 The incre
Rationales, rhetoric and realities
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was heralded by mainstream media outlets, the local organisers, the South African government and FIFA as an unequivocal success. The month-long spectacle saw South Africa take centre stage and host the world's largest single sporting event. This occurred against a backdrop of rationales and promises made that the event would leave lasting legacies for all, in particular marginalised South Africans. The reality is quite dif…
Sport and Post-Apartheid South Africa
Book Review| July 01 2014 Sport and Post-Apartheid South Africa: Revisiting The Race Game Chris Bolsmann Chris Bolsmann School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (2): 331–338. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.2.331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris B…
Africa's World Cup
Africas World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts to reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader significance, its …
South Africa and the Global Game
Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent team of scholars, this special issue and book aims t…
Sir Stanley Rous and the growth of world football
Soccer and society in Dublin
Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland's capital." Sport in History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Beyond the Field
Wentworth
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 38(12), pp. 1296–1297
University ranking as social exclusion
In this article we explore the dual role of global university rankings in the creation of a new, knowledge-identified, transnational capitalist class and in facilitating new forms of social exclusion. We examine how and why the practice of ranking universities has become widely defined by national and international organisations as an important instrument of political and economic policy. We consider the development of university rankings into a …
International student recruitment to universities in England
The recruitment of international students to universities in England has become a central issue in an era of globalisation for university administrators, senior managers, international offices and heads of schools and faculties. We examine the policy rationales for the recruitment of international students to England. Through the use of in‐depth interviews with key role players at four English universities, we compare the rhetoric, rationales and…
Rationales, rhetoric and realities
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was heralded by mainstream media outlets, the local organisers, the South African government and FIFA as an unequivocal success. The month-long spectacle saw South Africa take centre stage and host the world's largest single sporting event. This occurred against a backdrop of rationales and promises made that the event would leave lasting legacies for all, in particular marginalised South Africans. The reality is quite dif…
South African Football Tours at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Academic and popular studies of South African sport generally reveal a bias towards cricket and rugby and this perpetuates the myth that these games are the most popular in South Africa. This in turn is often viewed through the lens of 'race' in which the simplifications of sport along racial lines occur. This paper argues that football was more important in South Africa among all South Africans in the late 19th and early 20th century than has be…
White football in South Africa
This essay traces the development, domination and decline of white football in South Africa. It suggests that white football was more significant and popular than generally acknowledged and was at the forefront of globalizing football in the early twentieth century. In order to better understand the broader history of twentieth‐century South African football, a more detailed examination of the organized white game at the national and internationa…
Representation in the first African World Cup
This paper explores the representation of the first African World Cup in the British and South African press. Drawing on the output of a variety of media outlets between 2004, when South Africa was awarded the right to host the 2010 event, and the culmination of the tournament in July 2010, this paper contends that a range of representations of Africa have been put forward by the British and South African media. These can be interpreted as alarmi…
Mexico 1968 and South Africa 2010
South Africa and the global game
the festivities for Nelson Mandela's presidential inauguration included a soccer match between South Africa and Zambia at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.At halftime, Mandela's helicopter landed on the pitch.As the president stepped out onto the grass, the huge crowd erupted in a thunderous roar.When play resumed
Professional Football in Apartheid South Africa
A growing body of academic and popular literature considers the history of South African football. These and existing publications pay little or no attention to the emergence of white professional football in apartheid South Africa. The National Football League (NFL) challenged the amateur game and introduced professional football to the country. During its 17-year existence, the NFL grew each season with large attendances until its demise in 197…
The 1899 Orange Free State football team tour of Europe
In September 1899 an association football team from Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, South Africa, arrived in the United Kingdom. The team comprised 16 black South Africans who played under the auspices of the whites-only Orange Free State Football Association and was the first ever South African football team to tour abroad. In a four-month tour the team played 49 matches against opposition in England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. …
From Apartheid to Unity
This article analyses the complex process that deracialised and democratised South African football between the early 1970s and 1990s. Based mainly on archival documents, it argues that growing isolation from world sport, exemplified by South Africa's expulsion from the Olympic movement in 1970 and FIFA in 1976, and the reinvigoration of the liberation struggle with the Soweto youth uprising triggered a process of gradual desegregation in the Sou…
Dominions Apart
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand participated in numerous sporting contests prior to World War Two. These encounters were primarily on cricket pitches and rugby fields. After nearly four decades of negotiations the first Association football matches were played between the three countries in 1947. The first tour of South Africa to Australia and New Zealand was plagued by scandals on and off the pitch, but despite this Australia returned th…
Thoughts on the First African World Cup
This paper provides a brief reflection of the first African World Cup held in South Africa in June and July 2010. The author spent several weeks in the country attending matches and reflecting on his first World Cup as a sociologist and a football fan. He argues that despite the successful hosting of the World Cup, the event was marked by inclusion and exclusion
Soccer, South Africa and Celebrity Status
The rise of celebrity culture is a theme that has attracted a significant amount of attention within both mainstream sociology and cultural studies in more recent times. Ensuing debate has identified contemporary sports figures as an important facet of the celebritymedia \nnexus and as possible signifiers of cultural change. In this paper we take one particular sports celebrity, South African soccer star Mark Fish, and evaluate his image in \nrel…
Contesting Labor Internationalism
During the 1970s and 1980s, close linkages were established between unionists in Volkswagen’s Uitenhage plant in South Africa and Wolfsburg in Germany. The ensuing relationship resulted in trade union internationalism and solidarity with South African workers in their struggle against apartheid. After the insertion of the South African plant into the global production networks of the company, a range of new pressures and challenges confronted the…
Soccer, South Africa and Celebrity Status
The rise of celebrity culture is a theme that has attracted a significant amount of attention within both mainstream sociology and cultural studies in more recent times. Ensuing debate has identified contemporary sports figures as an important facet of the celebritymedia \nnexus and as possible signifiers of cultural change. In this paper we take one particular sports celebrity, South African soccer star Mark Fish, and evaluate his image in \nrel…
African Football
Football in Africa: Conflict, Conciliation and Community by Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti (eds)Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, Pp.xi + 301, bibliography, index ISBN: 0-333-91979-3 (cloth) Football is the most popular sport across the African continent. Thriving domestic leagues exist in many African countries; continent-wide club championships are played each year; and the bi-annual African Cup of Nations pits national teams against one anothe…
La solidaridad y el internacionalismo sindical en la lucha contra el Apartheid
International student recruitment to universities in England
The recruitment of international students to universities in England has become a central issue in an era of globalisation for university administrators, senior managers, international offices and heads of schools and faculties. We examine the policy rationales for the recruitment of international students to England. Through the use of in‐depth interviews with key role players at four English universities, we compare the rhetoric, rationales and…
White football in South Africa
This essay traces the development, domination and decline of white football in South Africa. It suggests that white football was more significant and popular than generally acknowledged and was at the forefront of globalizing football in the early twentieth century. In order to better understand the broader history of twentieth‐century South African football, a more detailed examination of the organized white game at the national and internationa…
South Africa and the global game
the festivities for Nelson Mandela's presidential inauguration included a soccer match between South Africa and Zambia at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.At halftime, Mandela's helicopter landed on the pitch.As the president stepped out onto the grass, the huge crowd erupted in a thunderous roar.When play resumed
Roundtable
Roundtable
Despite the presence and achievements of individual African footballers in Europe’s top leagues and the improvements in communication technology (the Internet and satellite television, among others), African football remains offlimits and a mystery to most Western media observers as well as Western fans.1 Selective and deficient media coverage of the continental game also has much to do with it. Consequently, before the 2010 World Cup, South Afri…
From Apartheid to Unity
This article analyses the complex process that deracialised and democratised South African football between the early 1970s and 1990s. Based mainly on archival documents, it argues that growing isolation from world sport, exemplified by South Africa's expulsion from the Olympic movement in 1970 and FIFA in 1976, and the reinvigoration of the liberation struggle with the Soweto youth uprising triggered a process of gradual desegregation in the Sou…
The 1899 Orange Free State football team tour of Europe
In September 1899 an association football team from Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, South Africa, arrived in the United Kingdom. The team comprised 16 black South Africans who played under the auspices of the whites-only Orange Free State Football Association and was the first ever South African football team to tour abroad. In a four-month tour the team played 49 matches against opposition in England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. …
Contesting Labor Internationalism
During the 1970s and 1980s, close linkages were established between unionists in Volkswagen’s Uitenhage plant in South Africa and Wolfsburg in Germany. The ensuing relationship resulted in trade union internationalism and solidarity with South African workers in their struggle against apartheid. After the insertion of the South African plant into the global production networks of the company, a range of new pressures and challenges confronted the…
L'Afrique du Sud, le précurseur du football international
Berceau du football en Afrique, l’Afrique du Sud a largement contribué à son internationalisation. L’article décrypte la formalisation et la structuration du football sud-africain autour de réseaux politiques et industriels de l’empire victorien. À la fin du XIX e siècle, cinq ans avant même la création officielle de la FIFA, les équipes africaines sont les toutes premières à traverser les mers pour jouer en Europe et en Amérique du Sud. Ces tour…
South African Football Tours at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Academic and popular studies of South African sport generally reveal a bias towards cricket and rugby and this perpetuates the myth that these games are the most popular in South Africa. This in turn is often viewed through the lens of 'race' in which the simplifications of sport along racial lines occur. This paper argues that football was more important in South Africa among all South Africans in the late 19th and early 20th century than has be…
Mexico 1968 and South Africa 2010
Thoughts on the First African World Cup
This paper provides a brief reflection of the first African World Cup held in South Africa in June and July 2010. The author spent several weeks in the country attending matches and reflecting on his first World Cup as a sociologist and a football fan. He argues that despite the successful hosting of the World Cup, the event was marked by inclusion and exclusion
Representation in the first African World Cup
This paper explores the representation of the first African World Cup in the British and South African press. Drawing on the output of a variety of media outlets between 2004, when South Africa was awarded the right to host the 2010 event, and the culmination of the tournament in July 2010, this paper contends that a range of representations of Africa have been put forward by the British and South African media. These can be interpreted as alarmi…
Dominions Apart
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand participated in numerous sporting contests prior to World War Two. These encounters were primarily on cricket pitches and rugby fields. After nearly four decades of negotiations the first Association football matches were played between the three countries in 1947. The first tour of South Africa to Australia and New Zealand was plagued by scandals on and off the pitch, but despite this Australia returned th…
University ranking as social exclusion
In this article we explore the dual role of global university rankings in the creation of a new, knowledge-identified, transnational capitalist class and in facilitating new forms of social exclusion. We examine how and why the practice of ranking universities has become widely defined by national and international organisations as an important instrument of political and economic policy. We consider the development of university rankings into a …
Africa's World Cup
Africas World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts to reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader significance, its …
South Africa and the Global Game
Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent team of scholars, this special issue and book aims t…
Here Come “Chelsea” of Sweden’
In this article we argue that while apartheid, boycotts and South African sport have received significant coverage and focus, this has primarily been restricted to Britain and former white colonies of the Commonwealth such as Australia and New Zealand. In addition, sports such as cricket and rugby receive most attention. We argue that it is useful to consider other countries and sports engaged in apartheid South Africa. We consider Swedish engage…
Professional Football in Apartheid South Africa
A growing body of academic and popular literature considers the history of South African football. These and existing publications pay little or no attention to the emergence of white professional football in apartheid South Africa. The National Football League (NFL) challenged the amateur game and introduced professional football to the country. During its 17-year existence, the NFL grew each season with large attendances until its demise in 197…
Sport and Post-Apartheid South Africa
Book Review| July 01 2014 Sport and Post-Apartheid South Africa: Revisiting The Race Game Chris Bolsmann Chris Bolsmann School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (2): 331–338. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.2.331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris B…
Taking South African sport seriously
Identity and Nation in African Football
One of the consequences of the FIFA World Cup held in South Africa in 2010 was the publication of a handful of popular and academic books that consider football on the African continent.1 The incre
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