International Sporting Events and Human Rights

Does the Host Nation Play Fair?

AvZack Bowersox

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Bloomsbury Research in Sports, Politics and International Relations

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Beskrivning

Questions have recently been raised about the political consequences a state experiences when hosting an international sporting event. As the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have visited Brazil and Russia, and the latter is slated to visit Qatar, issues regarding human rights, poverty, and human trafficking have seemingly appeared as frequently in media coverage as the results of competition. This text begins to build an understanding of just how a state’s human rights are influenced by both the want and actual experience of hosting. It finds that hosts behave differently when the eyes of the world are on them and that these events do produce positive effects on a state’s level of respect for human rights. Yet, it also identifies those areas in which hosts, organizations like the IOC and FIFA, and the international sports regime can help to strengthen and expand human rights

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-12
Mått:159 x 238 x 23 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Research in Sports, Politics and International Relations
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498562188

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Zack Bowersox is lecturer of international affairs at the University of Georgia.

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“Bowersox provides a clear and thorough analysis of how sporting events are not only important to international politics, but may actually alter the way countries interact – both for good or ill. This impressive and balanced examination explores the ways in which hosting and participating in sporting events can have real practical implications for human and international security. The reader is left hoping that as the world confronts the challenges of xenophobia and nationalism, international sport may provide one path by which these division may be mended.”

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Sport in SocietyChapter 2: Sport and the International SystemChapter 3: International Organization and SportChapter 4: Human Rights and International Sporting EventsChapter 5: Expressive Rights and International Sporting EventsChapter 6: International Sporting Events and Human TraffickingChapter 7: Women’s Rights and International Sporting EventsChapter 8: ISOs and Human Rights