week3
The Political Game
Topics to be discussed: Cricket as a point of crisis, e.g. Bodyline series, boycott of SA, England / Zimbabwe, India / Pakistan
Questions:
Why did 'Bodyline' cause such a outcry?
What is the relationship between sport and politics?
Why does cricket seem to be more involved than other sports?
How effective are sporting boycotts?
TV: (BBC documentary); (ABC documentary); (1999); (CNN documentary on 1983 WI tour of S.Africa)
Reading
Jon Gemmel, The politics of South African Cricket (2004)
Shaharyar Khan, Cricket Cauldron: the turbulent politics of sport in Pakistan (2013)