Sport, Protest and Globalisation

1. 'Deeds, Not Words': Emily Wilding Davison and the Epsom Derby 1913 Revisited; Carol Osborne.- 2. Women's Olympics: Protest, Strategy or Both?; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.- 3. A Most Contentious Contest. Politics and Protest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ; David Clay Large and Joshua J. H. Large.- 4. Splitting the World of International Sport: The 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces and the politics of challenging the global sport order; Russell Field.- 5. "Memorias del '68: Media, Massacre, and the Construction of Collective Memories" Celeste González de Bustamante.- 6. Race, Rugby and Political Protest in New Zealand: A Personal Account; John Minto.- 7. Fighting Toxic Greens: The Global Anti-Golf Movement (GAG'M) Revisitedl; Anita Pleumarom.- 8. 'Human Rights or Cheap Code; Words for Antisemitism?' The Debate over Israel, Palestine and Sport Sanctions; Jon Dart.- 9. 'The Olympics Do Not Understand Canada': Canada and the Rise of Olympic Protests; Christine M. O'Bonsawin'10. The Atos Games': Protest, the Paralympics of 2012 and the New Politics of Disablement; Stephen Wagg.- 11. 'Messing about on the river.'; Trenton Oldfield and the Possibilities of Sports Protest; Jon Dart.- 12. Sochi 2014 Olympics: Accommodation and Resistance; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.- 13. An anatomy of resistance: the popular committees of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil; Christopher Gaffney.

Jon Dart is Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published on topics such as the political economy of sport and social media, sports fandom and sports policy in the Middle East. He has a particular interest in future of the relationship between sport and the social sciences within UK higher education institutions. Stephen Wagg is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of sport, as well as on the politics of childhood and of comedy. His latest book is The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy (Palgrave, 2015) and he edited The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (Palgrave, 2012) with Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.