TY  - JOUR
AU  - McDowell, Matthew L.
A2  - McDowell, Matthew L.
A2  - Skillen, Fiona
DB  - BISp
DP  - BISp
KW  - 20. Jahrhundert
KW  - Aktivität, körperliche
KW  - Apartheid
KW  - Boykott
KW  - Commonwealth-Spiele
KW  - Einflussnahme, politische
KW  - Entwicklung, politische
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Presse
KW  - Rassismus
KW  - Schottland
KW  - Sportpolitik
KW  - Sportsoziologie
KW  - System, politisches
KW  - Südafrika
LA  - eng
TI  - The 1986 Commonwealth Games : Scotland, South Africa, sporting boycotts, and the former British Empire
TT  - Die Commonwealth Games von 1986 : Schottland, Südafrika, sportliche Boykotte und das ehemalige britische Empire
PY  - 2017
N2  - This article examines Scottish reactions to African, Asian, Caribbean and other nations’ boycotts of the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. These boycotts occurred over the UK Government’s support of trade with apartheid South Africa, and over the inclusion in the England team of South African-born Zola Budd and Annette Cowley. This piece focuses in part on the political reaction, both by Scotland’s Westminster MPs, and also by Edinburgh District Council – the latter led by the Labour Party, and keen to show their opposition to apartheid. However, it also focuses on the press reaction to these boycotts, which was rarely supportive of boycotting nations, with some of the more left-liberal outlets largely defensive over Scotland’s participation in anti-apartheid politics. The highly mediated public reaction is additionally gauged through letters to newspaper editors. Whilst some displayed anger over the position of the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, and others consternation over the impotent political position of Scotland within the wider UK, most letters were overwhelmingly hostile to the boycotters, and linked their disgust to a nostalgia for the British Empire (some of it racially tinged), and accordingly an inability of athletes and sporting authorities to keep politics out of sport.
L2  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2015.1088725
L2  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1088725
DO  - 10.1080/17430437.2015.1088725
SP  - S. 384-397
SN  - 1743-0437
JO  - Sport in society
IS  - 3
VL  - 20
M3  - Elektronische Ressource (online)
M3  - Gedruckte Ressource
ID  - PU201810007598
ER  -