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Exploring Issues in Transnational Sport History

Robert J. Lake and Simon J. Eaves

ideological meanings. 4 He defined the term, in his 1997 text, as “an idea, a movement, or an institution that seeks to reformulate the nature of relations among nations through cross-national cooperation and interchange.” 5 This definition follows logically, given that the prefix in the term inter

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Shooting Over the Curtain—A Transnational Analysis of Soviet Hockey in the 1950s and 1960s

Mathieu Boivin-Chouinard

fizkultura , mass physical culture by Western sporting practices, has been interpreted through those binary lenses. 8 Consistent with the transnational paradigm, many historians recently complexified the portrait. Soviet sports could then be conceived more subtly as a cultural phenomenon crossed by

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Retouched and Remarkable: Female Athletes in La Culture Physique (1904) as Historical and Visual Documentation

Rachel Ozerkevich

, seemingly aware of the camera’s gaze on their bodies, or cross their arms over their chests to draw attention to the breadth of their shoulders and pectoral muscles. The viewer is invited to admire these parts of their physiques; lighting hits their nude or mostly nude forms in such a way as to further

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Wood, Canvas, Fiberglass, and Whitewater: The Development of Recreational Paddling in Alberta, Canada

Jon L. Weller

cross-Canada Expo race from Rocky Mountain House to Montreal. 40 Although long-distance canoe racing had been a growing sport since 1945, it found a voice in Flin Flon, Manitoba in 1964. In a local bar, Norm Tyson, Gene and Jim Rheaume, and John Nickel devised an idea for a cross-country canoe race to

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Meaning by Doing: The Making of Endurance Activism on the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament

Dain TePoel

together to call attention to a danger so serious and so urgent that we have given up our jobs and homes, our incomes and comforts for nine months to cross the United States. Our purpose is to educate and to demonstrate our conviction that there is hope and that each individual can make a difference

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Tracing the Pioneers: Ballroom Dance Instructors and “Taxi-dance Girls” in Modern Chinese Leisure Sports

Zeng Guang Duan, Ying He, and Jian Gang Qiu

floor, both in form and in reality. They created an industry dominated by Chinese interests ... .” 30 From “Free Dance” to “Standard Dance”: Representative Figures and Their Cultural Practices Among Modern Ballroom Dance Instructors In the context of cross-cultural transmission practices in ballroom

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Zainichi Koreans Invited to Home Base: Building Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on the Development of Korean Baseball (1956–70)

Seungho Woo, Hwan Son, and Karam Lee

,” Journal of the Korean Association of Regional Geographers 9, no. 3 (2003): 248–261; Byung-Ho Chung, “Cultural Resistance and Educational Alternatives: The Reproduction of Ethnic Identity in the North Korean Schools in Japan,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (2003): 125–155; Kim, “Festivals

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“They Couldn’t Win and Didn’t Want to Lose”: The 1982 Inter-District Championship Final (Fiji Soccer)

Kieran Edmond James and Yogesh Nadan

gatherings. I was able to introduce Henry Dyer to them when he visited campus and the soccer-mad staff also enjoyed meeting him. These moments crossed ethnic and class lines in powerful ways. Because the Indo-Fijian community “controls” coaching and administrative positions in soccer, 12 controls the Small

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Becoming a Leading Player in Protecting the Mountain Environment: The Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme and the Path to the 1982 Kathmandu Declaration

Philippe Vonnard

[minutes of the 1979 general assembly],” UIAA Bulletin 87, December 1979: 7. 61. Sharada Shah was a member of the Red Cross and of several charities involved in children’s education. She was also the sister of King Birenda Bir Birkram Shah, who pushed for the creation of nature reserves in his country

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They Didn’t Do Anything Wrong but They Did Everything White: Examination of the 1968 Harvard Crew’s Support of the Olympic Project for Human Rights

Amanda Nicole Schweinbenz and C. Keith Harrison

, Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, and Thomas A. Underwood (New York: NYU Press, 1993), vii. 112. Christopher Barrie. “Searching Racism after George Floyd,” Socius : Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 6 (2020): 1–3; Thu T. Nguyen, Shaniece Criss, Eli K. Michaels, Rebekah I. Cross, Jackson S