Browsing by Author "Dichter, Heather L."
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Animalympics, Or How I Became a Sport Scholar
Dichter, Heather L. (Article)While at first unintentional, the author’s path to becoming a sport historian has incorporated her academic trajectory of sport and German/European history along with working in the sport industry. These experiences have ... -
Aspiration and Reflection: Sport Historians on Sport History
Dichter, Heather L.; Vamplew, Wray (Article)Following the series of Presidential Forum conversation pieces instigated by Kevin Wamsley on the NASSH website, this piece places the context of the collection of comments and criticisms by 29 contributors to this special ... -
Aspirational Reflections: The Future of Sport History
Dichter, Heather L.; Vamplew, Wray (Article)This article provides a scrambled form of SWOT analysis of the ideas contained in the various contributions to this special issue on sport historians and the field of sport history. The market for sport history, pure and ... -
Denazification, Democratization, and the Cold War: Diplomatic Manipulation of the German Olympic Committee
Dichter, Heather L. (Book chapter)The western Allies paid careful attention to the re-formation of athletic clubs in occupied Germany as part of the policies of using sport as a way to help with the democratization process after the Second World War. The ... -
The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics
Dichter, Heather L. (Article)With an increasing amount of diplomatic archival material being declassified, scholars are now finding not only more instances of governments, and especially diplomats, involved in sport matters, but also different ways ... -
“Football more important than Berlin”: East German Football vs. NATO, 1960-64
Dichter, Heather L. (Book chapter)In the early 1960s Portugal and the Netherlands confronted the problem of East German participation in the UEFA Junior Tournament and Olympic qualification. Although not very important tournaments, domestic governments ... -
Game Plan for Democracy: Sport and Youth in Occupied West Germany
Dichter, Heather L. (Book chapter)Although the Allies created Directive 23 to control sport in occupied Germany, they also realized that sport could be utilized to introduce democratic ideas to the German population broadly. Falling under the guidelines ... -
Grassroots Diplomacy through Coach Education: Americans, Jordanians and Tajiks
Blom, Lindsey; Magat, Paz; Dichter, Heather L. (Article)Two coach-to-coach sport diplomacy exchange programmes run between 2012 and 2015 in Jordan Tajikistan, funded by U.S. State Department’s International Sports Programming Initiative, used soccer to promote grassroots ... -
Introduction
Dichter, Heather L. (Book chapter)Sport and diplomacy have been mutually intertwined in transnational networks of governance and competition – not just on the field of play – and the non-governmental bodies controlling the sport play an important role ... -
New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
Dichter, Heather L.; Lake, Robert; Dyreson, Mark (Article)This collection offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and ... -
Olympic Games Bids
Dichter, Heather L. (Book chapter)Hosting international sport events, from world championships for a single sport to mega-events such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup, have become big business over the past few decades. These events have grown ... -
Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914
Dichter, Heather L. (Book)The book explores the nexus of the world’s most popular sport and diplomacy, as a tool of the nation-state based diplomacy, as diplomacy of soccer as a non-state actor, and via the relationship between soccer and a variety ...