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Sport and the Pursuit of War and
Peace from the Nineteenth Century
to the Present
This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines
the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from
South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.
From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary
esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured
across nations in times of conflict and peace. This collection contextualizes
debates around the morality and desirability of continuing to play sport against
the backdrop of war as others are dying for their nation. It also examines the
legacy and memory of particular wars as expressed in a range of sporting prac-
tices in the immediate aftermath of conflicts such as the World Wars and wars
of independence. At the same time, this book analyses the history of sport and
peace by considering how sport can operate as pacification in some contexts
and a tool of reconciliation in others.
Together, and through an introductory framing essay, these essays offer schol-
ars of sport, conflict studies and cultural history more broadly a multinational
analysis of the war-peace-sport nexus that has operated throughout the world
since the late nineteenth century.
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
He is a specialist in early twentieth-century French culture, history and politics
and is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French
Combat Novel of the Great War (2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War:
Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936–45 (2011). His most recent
book, co-written with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw, is French Political
Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures (2017). His current
work explores the history of the French sports press and publication industry
through its relationship to road cycling.
Philip Dine was formerly Personal Professor and Head of French at the University
of Galway, Ireland. He has published widely on representations of the French colo-
nial empire and its cultural legacies in fields ranging from children’s literature to
professional sport. Further projects have targeted sport and identity-construction in
France and the Francophone world. He is the author of Images of the Algerian War
(1994), French Rugby Football: A Cultural History (2001) and Sport and Identity in
France: Practices, Locations, Representations (2012). He is also the co-editor (with
Seán Crosson) of Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (2010).
Routledge Studies in Cultural History
125 Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country,
1800 to 1936
Maitane Ostolaza
126 Academia and Trade
The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1
Edited by Stefan Krmnicek and Hadrien Rambach
127 Institutions and Individuals
The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2
Edited by Stefan Krmnicek and Hadrien Rambach
128 Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain,
and the Caribbean
Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604
Mariana Cecilia Velázquez
129 Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth
Century to the Present
War Minus the Shooting?
Edited by Martin Hurcombe and Philip Dine
130 Staging Slavery
Performances of Colonial Slavery and Race from International
Perspectives, 1770–1850
Edited by Sarah J. Adams, Jenna M. Gibbs, and Wendy Sutherland
131 Honor and Shame in Western History
Edited by Jörg Wettlaufer, David Nash and Jan Frode Hatlen
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.rou-
tledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Cultural-History/book-series/SE0367
Sport and the Pursuit
of War and Peace from
the Nineteenth Century
to the Present
War Minus the Shooting?
Edited by Martin Hurcombe
and Philip Dine
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Names: Hurcombe, Martin, editor. | Dine, Philip, editor.
Title: Sport and the pursuit of war and peace from the nineteenth
century to the present : war minus the shooting? / edited by
Martin Hurcombe and Philip Dine.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge
studies in cultural history | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022044779 (print) | LCCN 2022044780
(ebook) | ISBN 9781032125978 (hardback) | ISBN
9781032125985 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003225355 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sports--Social aspects--History. | Sports--
Sociological aspects. | Nationalism and sports. | Military sports. |
War and society. | Military history--20th century.
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LCC GV706.5 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/8309--dc23/eng/20221122
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022044779
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Contents
List of Contributors viii
Preface xi
Introduction: Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus 1
MARTIN HURCOMBE AND PHILIP DINE
PART I
Military and Sporting Cultures 17
1 Boars as Rebels: Pig-Sticking as a Military Sport
for the British Army in India 19
PIYUSH KUMAR TIWARI
2 Reporting the Death of Cycling’s Elite
in First World War France 38
MARTIN HURCOMBE
3 Women, War and Sport: The Battle
of the 2019 Solheim Cup 56
ALI BOWES, ALAN BAIRNER, STUART WHIGHAM
AND NIAMH KITCHING
4 Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision
and the Logic of War in Esports 77
NATHANIEL ZETTER
vi Contents
PART II
Play On: Negotiating Sporting Practice in a Time
of Conflict 99
5 ‘You Are Absolutely Indifferent to the Call
of Your King’: Horse Racing, War and Politics
in New Zealand, 1914–1918 101
GREG RYAN
6 ‘Flannelled Fools Are Strutting About Tennis Courts’:
Lawn Tennis in Britain During the Great War 121
ROBERT J. LAKE
7 Occupied Scandinavian Brother Nations: Danish
and Norwegian Sports During World War Two 146
HANS BONDE AND MATTI GOKSØYR
8 The General’s Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship
during Colombia’s La Violencia, 1953–1958 167
MANUEL MORALES FONTANILLA
PART III
Sports Culture and the Legacy of War 185
9 ‘What Demobilised Men Want’: Physical Culture
and Post-War British Masculinity 187
CONOR HEFFERNAN
10 The ‘Great Game’ and Sport: Identity, Contestation
and Irish-British Relations in the Olympic Movement 207
KATIE LISTON AND JOSEPH MAGUIRE
11 The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories
of the Asia-Pacific War 230
PHILIP SEATON
12 Remembering ‘Our Boys’: Football, War and Masculinity
in the British Military Spectacular 250
DANIEL FITZPATRICK
Contents vii
PART IV
Playing for Peace: Cultural Diplomacy or Pacification? 275
13 Overcoming Antipathy for Internationalism?:
Britain and the 1920 Olympic Games 277
LUKE J. HARRIS
14 War and Sport in ‘French’ Algeria: From Pacification
to Decolonization 297
PHILIP DINE
15 ‘A Fine Example of Brotherhood and Sportsmanship’:
The 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the Era
of the ‘Little Détente’ 315
SAM SCHELFHOUT AND THOMAS M. HUNT
16 Replacing Bullets with Balls: Sport for Peace in the
FARC Demobilization and Reincorporation Camps 337
PETER J. WATSON
Index 361
List of Contributors
Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK. Alain Bairner is a Professor
of Sport and Social Theory interested in the relationship between
sport and politics with a particular focus on national identities and
nationalism.
Hans Bonde, University of Copenhagen (UC), Denmark. Hans Bonde
is a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sport
Sciences (NEXS), specializes in the study of masculinity and sport,
and is the author of Masculinity, Sport, Politics (Routledge, 2010).
Ali Bowes, Nottingham Trent University, UK. Ali Bowes is a Senior
Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University
specializing in qualitative investigations on elite and/or professional
female athletes and elite women’s sport cultures.
Philip Dine, University of Galway, Ireland. Philip Dine has published
widely on representations of the French colonial empire and its cultural
legacies in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport.
Daniel Fitzpatrick, Aston University, UK. Daniel Fitzpatrick is a Lecturer
in Politics and International Relations and his work lies at the
intersection of state theory, nationalism and the politics of sport.
Matti Goksøyr, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
Matti Goksøyr is a Professor of History and has published books and
articles on: football and sports in general; nationalism and national
identities; sports and international relations; sports, politics and
culture; polar history and skiing.
Luke J. Harris, University of Birmingham, UK. Luke J. Harris is an
Honorary Research Fellow within the Department of History and
specializes in the history of: Britain at the Olympics Games, athletics
in the Midlands and snooker.
Conor Heffernan, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Conor
Heffernan specializes in the history of health and body cultures in
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.
List of Contributors ix
Thomas M. Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Thomas M. Hunt
is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health
Education where he researches sport law, history and international
relations.
Martin Hurcombe, University of Bristol, UK. Martin Hurcombe is
Professor of French Studies specializing in war and culture studies
with a particular interest in the early twentieth century.
Niamh Kitching, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick,
Ireland. Niamh Kitching is a Lecturer in Physical Education with an
interest in the sociology of sport and Physical Education, and gender
and sport.
Robert J. Lake, Douglas College, Canada. Robert J. Lake’s research
interests focus on socio-historical aspects of tennis, related to social
class, gender, race, politics/policy, commercialism, media, coaching
and talent development.
Katie Liston, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK. Katie Liston is
a senior lecturer in the social sciences of sport and has published
extensively on the nexus of sport and identity, including gender,
national identity and pain and injury.
Joseph Maguire, Loughborough University, UK. Joseph Maguire has
published extensively on sport, culture and society and has received
two major awards: from the North American Society for the Sociology
of Sport for Distinguished Service and ISSA.
Manuel Morales Fontanilla, University of Richmond, USA. Manuel
Morales Fontanilla is currently writing a history of cycling in Colombia,
titled Impossible Roads: Cycling, Difference, and Territory. Colombia,
1930–1991.
Greg Ryan, Lincoln University, New Zealand. Greg Ryan is Professor of
History and the author of Sport and the New Zealanders: A History
(University of Auckland Press, 2018).
Sam Schelfhout, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Sam Schelfhout is
a doctoral candidate in Physical Culture and Sport Studies where he
is in the latter stages of writing his dissertation on sport diplomacy
during the late-Cold War and post-Cold War periods.
Philip Seaton, Institute of Japan Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies, Japan. Philip Seaton has two main research areas: Japanese
memories of the Asia-Pacific War, with a particular focus on media
representations of the war and the roots of ideological contestations
over the past, and contents tourism.
Piyush Kumar Tiwari, Ashoka University, India. Piyush Kuma Tiwari is
currently working as a Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University, India,
