Sport and Contested Identities

Introduction [Ciaran Acton and David Hassan] Part 1: Participation 1. The Under-representation and Racialized Experiences of Minority Coaches in High Level Coach Education in Professional Football in England [Steven Bradbury] 2. The Good Friday Dis-Agreement: Sport and Contested Identities in Northern Ireland since 1998 [Conor Murray and David Hassan] Part 2: Spectators and Supporters 3. Sporting Spaces and Identity Construction: The Formation and Display of Culture and Identity among Cricket Supporters [Kausik Bandyopadhyaya] 4. British Asians and Football: Exploring the Rise and Popularity of Pujabi and Bangla Fans [Daniel Kilvington] Part 3: Media Representations 5. Football and Race Talk among Dutch Football Media Audiences [Jacco van Sterkenburg and Dennis Blokzeijl] 6. A Level Playing Field: Gender Sexuality and Exclusion in Sport [Teresa Willis] 7. A State Within a State in the Nation: Historicising the Alleged Discrimination against Bengal and its Cricketers [Souvik Naha] Part 4: Sporting Mobilities 8. Competing Allegiances, Divided Loyalties: Making Sport Identities in Mobile Societies [David Rowe] 9. From the Margins to the Pitch: Cricket, Migration and Social Resources [Thomas Walle] 10. Sport, Tourism and Identity: Japan, Rugby Union and the Transcultural Maul [Tom Hinch, James Hingham and Adam Doering] Part 5: Strategies and Interventions 11. Working into Space: Agency, Motivation, Identity, Indigenous Players and the AFL [Sean Gorman and Paul Oliver] 12. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Tackling Racism and Discrimination in Grassroots Sport [Max Mauro]