Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state's attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation. Through this cultural lens, it illuminates the central paradox of state power during the Vichy Regime. The state organised a centralised physical cultural programme meant to control and discipline French men and women. However, these activities instead empowered individuals and sporting associations to create spaces for individual expression, protect entrenched business enterprises, preserve republican institutions and organise sites for mutual aid and assistance. Based on extensive archival research, this innovative, multi-city analysis demonstrates how French sporting federations, associations and athletes appropriated Vichy's physical education directives to reshape the ideology of the state and serve their own local agendas.
| ISBN: | 9781526153289 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 2022 |
| Author: | Keith Rathbone |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Modern French and Francophone History |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Sociology: sport and leisure |
Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state's attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation. Through this cultural lens, it illuminates the central paradox of state power during the Vichy Regime. The state organised a centralised physical cultural programme meant to control and discipline French men and women. However, these activities instead empowered individuals and sporting associations to create spaces for individual expression, protect entrenched business enterprises, preserve republican institutions and organise sites for mutual aid and assistance. Based on extensive archival research, this innovative, multi-city analysis demonstrates how French sporting federations, associations and athletes appropriated Vichy's physical education directives to reshape the ideology of the state and serve their own local agendas.
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Sociology: sport and leisure
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France is available in Hardback
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France was written by Keith Rathbone and published by Manchester University Press
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France has 352 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Modern French and Francophone History series
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