Autorentext

John Kelly is a founding member of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Sport (ECSS) research group and is a former Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests are varied, and his articles have looked at "sectarianism", Scottish football and the media, the sociology of rugby union, symbolic self-representations of ballet dancers, sport and militarism, and schoolchildren's virtual idealised body image. His previous books are Sport and Social Theory: An Introduction (co-written with Gyozo Molnar), Bigotry, Football and Scotland (co-edited with John Flint), and Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (co-edited with Alan Bairner and Jung Woo Lee).

Klappentext

British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: "Support the Troops" critically explores the complex and evolving relationship between sport and militarism in the UK, offering an in-depth analysis of how political power and ideological narratives are constructed and contested through this nexus.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. 2. Sport's role in promoting British militarism. 3. Sociological explanations of the hero-fication and support of British militarism. 4. The ideological construction of British remembrance. 5. Communicating consent for British militarism. 6. Concluding thoughts.