Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes in Contributors; 1 The sexual and gender politics of sport mega-events: roving colonialism; 2 Methodology; 3 Gay pride on stolen land: homonationalism and settler colonialism at the Vancouver Olympics; 4 Gay/lesbian asylum and the Pride House: imperialist settler homonationalism at the Vancouver Olympics; 5 London Olympics, Islamophobia and English homonationalism; 6 'Pot of blood': Sochi Olympics and the Circassian genocide
7 The No Sochi movement and Circassian activism: colonial double-backing of the Sochi Olympics and Russian nation building8 Egyptian football Ultras and the January 25th revolution: anticolonial masculinities and patriarchal state terrorism; 9 Decolonizing sporting homonationalisms: from complicity to solidarity; Glossary; Abbreviations; Index
Summary
This study examines gender and sexuality in relation to colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial context : the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution, the book examines sporting 'homonationalism' and anti-colonial resistance. The first part discusses different moments of 'homonationalism' in sport. The second part explores how indigenous and anti-colonial protests against mega-sport events lead to different views about gender and sexuality politics in sport
