Michelle Sikes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6104022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Sikes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikes |
| SIGNATURE | SIKES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kinesiology and African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical cons…
Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend? A Clash of Anti-Apartheid Tactics and Targets in the Olympic Movement of the Early 1960s
Tensions between anti-apartheid activists within the Olympic movement are surprisingly overlooked in the large body of literature on the international campaign to isolate South Africa in sport. Kenya’s denial of visas to South African delegates slated to attend the 1963 International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Nairobi precipitated one such fissure. The South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) strongly opposed Kenyan politician…
From Nairobi to Baden-Baden
In July 1963, some three months before sports administrators from around the world were to descend on Nairobi for the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) annual session, the meeting was in jeopardy. Government officials in Kenya announced that in protest against white minority rule on the African continent, delegates from Portugal and South Africa were to be denied entry visas. Their decision culminated in the eleventh-hour transfer of the IO…
Enduring Legacies and Convergent Identities
The colonial era in Kenya was a pivotal and transitional period during which aspects of local peoples’ existing gender roles and relations were challenged, renegotiated and, in the case of running, confirmed. British colonial intent to introduce running as sport to men aligned with Rift Valley societies that condoned male, though not female, running. Indigenous ideas and ways of living could operate in tandem with the historically masculine orien…
Print Media and the History of Women’s Sport in Africa
This article explores one source through which African women’s sport history can be drawn and interpreted: the sport sections of African newspapers. In the case of Kenya, the major dailies, Daily Nation and The East African Standard , are repositories of information pertaining to the challenges that confronted female athletes. Taking into account the history and development of these media, the article addresses the question of why did Kenyan wome…
Running as a resource of hope? Voices from Eldoret
There is a continuing debate about East African running success. Few studies have considered wealth as a key motivation behind wanting to run. This article focuses upon the motivations of Kenyan women who choose to participate in professional running and the impact on them, their families and wider communities. Much of the fieldwork for this study took place in and around the town of Eldoret. It encourages researchers interested in sport in Afric…
Running as a resource of hope? Voices from Eldoret
There is a continuing debate about East African running success. Few studies have considered wealth as a key motivation behind wanting to run. This article focuses upon the motivations of Kenyan women who choose to participate in professional running and the impact on them, their families and wider communities. Much of the fieldwork for this study took place in and around the town of Eldoret. It encourages researchers interested in sport in Afric…
Print Media and the History of Women’s Sport in Africa
This article explores one source through which African women’s sport history can be drawn and interpreted: the sport sections of African newspapers. In the case of Kenya, the major dailies, Daily Nation and The East African Standard , are repositories of information pertaining to the challenges that confronted female athletes. Taking into account the history and development of these media, the article addresses the question of why did Kenyan wome…
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend? A Clash of Anti-Apartheid Tactics and Targets in the Olympic Movement of the Early 1960s
Tensions between anti-apartheid activists within the Olympic movement are surprisingly overlooked in the large body of literature on the international campaign to isolate South Africa in sport. Kenya’s denial of visas to South African delegates slated to attend the 1963 International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Nairobi precipitated one such fissure. The South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) strongly opposed Kenyan politician…
From Nairobi to Baden-Baden
In July 1963, some three months before sports administrators from around the world were to descend on Nairobi for the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) annual session, the meeting was in jeopardy. Government officials in Kenya announced that in protest against white minority rule on the African continent, delegates from Portugal and South Africa were to be denied entry visas. Their decision culminated in the eleventh-hour transfer of the IO…
Enduring Legacies and Convergent Identities
The colonial era in Kenya was a pivotal and transitional period during which aspects of local peoples’ existing gender roles and relations were challenged, renegotiated and, in the case of running, confirmed. British colonial intent to introduce running as sport to men aligned with Rift Valley societies that condoned male, though not female, running. Indigenous ideas and ways of living could operate in tandem with the historically masculine orien…
Running as a resource of hope? Voices from Eldoret
There is a continuing debate about East African running success. Few studies have considered wealth as a key motivation behind wanting to run. This article focuses upon the motivations of Kenyan women who choose to participate in professional running and the impact on them, their families and wider communities. Much of the fieldwork for this study took place in and around the town of Eldoret. It encourages researchers interested in sport in Afric…
Print Media and the History of Women’s Sport in Africa
This article explores one source through which African women’s sport history can be drawn and interpreted: the sport sections of African newspapers. In the case of Kenya, the major dailies, Daily Nation and The East African Standard , are repositories of information pertaining to the challenges that confronted female athletes. Taking into account the history and development of these media, the article addresses the question of why did Kenyan wome…
From Nairobi to Baden-Baden
In July 1963, some three months before sports administrators from around the world were to descend on Nairobi for the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) annual session, the meeting was in jeopardy. Government officials in Kenya announced that in protest against white minority rule on the African continent, delegates from Portugal and South Africa were to be denied entry visas. Their decision culminated in the eleventh-hour transfer of the IO…
Enduring Legacies and Convergent Identities
The colonial era in Kenya was a pivotal and transitional period during which aspects of local peoples’ existing gender roles and relations were challenged, renegotiated and, in the case of running, confirmed. British colonial intent to introduce running as sport to men aligned with Rift Valley societies that condoned male, though not female, running. Indigenous ideas and ways of living could operate in tandem with the historically masculine orien…
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend? A Clash of Anti-Apartheid Tactics and Targets in the Olympic Movement of the Early 1960s
Tensions between anti-apartheid activists within the Olympic movement are surprisingly overlooked in the large body of literature on the international campaign to isolate South Africa in sport. Kenya’s denial of visas to South African delegates slated to attend the 1963 International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Nairobi precipitated one such fissure. The South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) strongly opposed Kenyan politician…
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical cons…
Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Kenya (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)