Tag: Heather L. Dichter
Cycling Team Sponsorship and Diplomacy
In his study Cycling Diplomacy: Undemocratic Regimes and Professional Road Cycling Teams Sponsorship (Peter Lang Publishing), Jiří Zákravský presents four case studies to show that undemocratic states use sponsoring of pro cycling teams to promote their nations. We asked sport historian and diplomacy specialist Heather L. Dichter for a review. She found a multitude of empirical data in the book, but also a glaring omission of analyses, in the case studies as well as in the overall conclusion.
The drama behind East Germany’s 1968 acceptance into the Olympic fold revealed
In her award-winning Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press), Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. In his review, our foremost expert on the history of sport diplomacy and international politics Kristian Gerner is impressed by Dr. Dichter’s meticulous study of the competition for the Winter Games in 1968.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 38, 2021, Issue 13–14 | Winter Olympics: Games, Bids, and Legacies
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The 1952 and 1994 Olympic Flames: Norway’s Quest for Winter Olympic Identity by Matti Goksøyr & Gaute Heyerdahl (open access).
“Entertaining reading about football as a vital element in the human comedy”
In Heather L. Dichter’s edited volume Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914 (Univerity Press of Kentucky) an international group of experts analyzes the relationship between soccer and diplomacy. We handed the book to Kristian Gerner, professor of history at Lund University and our expert reviewer in sport and international relations. He found that the book offers readable analyses of soccer as an instrument of diplomacy, but questions the use and understanding of the chosen terminology.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 38, 2021, Issue 2–3
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games by Austin Duckworth & Jörg Krieger.
A well-researched and highly readable story of the role that sports played in American Cold War diplomacy
In Toby C. Rider’s and Kevin B. Witherspoon’s edited volume Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War (The University of Arkansas Press), leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history. Kristian Gerner, professor of history at Lund University, is our knowledgeable reviewer, and he highlights the role played by African Americans, internationally as well as in the domestic civil rights movement.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 37, 2020, Issue 13 | Winter Olympics
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Olympic Winter Games, ‘Cold Sports’, and Inclusive Values by Irena Martínková & Jim Parry.
Soccer & Society, Volume 21, 2020, Issue 5
Football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE ORGANIZATION OF CLUB FOOTBALL IN DENMARK – A CONTEMPORARY PROFILE by Søren Bennike, Rasmus K. Storm, Johan Michael Wikman & Laila S. Ottesen.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 36, 2019, Issue 2–3: New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.
Needs more methodology and more sports history to live up to its title
The anthology «Methodology in Sports History», edited by Wray Vamplew and Dave Day (Routledge) seemed to be just what the supervisor ordered for a Ph.D. student at a crucial point in the dissertation process. For our reviewer Robert Svensson, however, it was somewhat of a disappointment. The book confuses method with methodology, and deals more with history in general than with sport history.