TY - BOOK ID - 134804158 TI - The whole world was watching : sport in the Cold War AU - Edelman, Robert AU - Young, Christopher PY - 2019 SN - 1503611019 9781503611016 9781503610187 1503610187 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sports KW - Sports and state KW - Cold War KW - World politics KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Influence. KW - Olympic Games. KW - cultural Cold War. KW - cultural turn. KW - gender. KW - international systems. KW - media. KW - multipolarity. KW - popular culture. KW - postcolonial. KW - sport. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134804158 AB - In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture - and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide. The Whole World Was Watching examines Cold War rivalries through the lens of sporting activities and competitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. The essays in this volume consider sport as a vital sphere for understanding the complex geopolitics and cultural politics of the time, not just in terms of commerce and celebrity, but also with respect to shifting notions of race, class, and gender. ER -