The ‘Great Game’ and Sport
Identity, Contestation and Irish–British Relations in the Olympic Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Liston (0000-0003-3898-0166, University of Ulster, corresponding author), J Maguire (0000-0003-3547-2799, Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-41 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2020.1864873 |
| OpenAlex | W3113798832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper draws on original rigorous research conducted in an extensive range of local, national and international state archives, sporting repositories and personal papers. In focus is the 1948 London Olympic Games, the Olympic movement and a ‘new’ phase in Irish–British relations involving international sport. Here, for the first time, we elucidate the role of non-state sportive diplomats who, acting as cultural intermediaries, were involved in the production of ideas about the normative rules governing international jurisdiction and identity that prevented nations/states from being recognized on their own terms. The intricate details revealed here are made possible by a rigorous two-way traffic between sensitizing concepts and evidence: specifically, the quest for exciting significance by non-state actors, soft power struggles and ‘patriot games’ via the medium of international Olympic and athletic movements. The paper also makes two other important contributions: to sport in/and international relations and the politics of Olympic protests
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · International relations · Irish · Jurisdiction · Media studies · Movement (music · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Doping in Sports · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Violence and civilization
Quest for excitement
An Outline of a Clausewitzian Theory of Intelligence
The Unresolved Question
The British Olympic Association
Gold, Silver and Green
Rule Britannia
Sport and War in an Irish Town
Are we all cultural intermediaries now? An introduction to cultural intermediaries in context
The Continuation of Politics by Other Means’
Sport, Empire, and Diplomacy
Olympic diplomacy
Imperialisms in the Olympics of the Colonization in the Postcolonization
Training for sport is training for war’
The British Government and the Olympic movement
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
Projecting the Nation through Sport and Culture
Spying on Ireland
Defending Ireland
British Spies and Irish Rebels
Invitation to Sociology
Not just the Games? Power, protest and politics at the Olympics
Soft Power
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |