Gijsbert Oonk and History alumnus Jorn Schulting contribute to Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East

Cover of the book 'Routledge handbook of sport in the Middle East'

Gijsbert Oonk, Research Director at the History Department of the Erasmus School of History Culture and Communication (ESHCC) and Jorn Schulting, master graduate History of Society (2019) have written a chapter on Nationality Swapping in World Athletics: Cases and Contexts from the Middle East 1998–2016 as part of the book Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East.

Book Description

This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds (history, politics, sociology, economics and regional studies), with different methodological approaches, to create the ‘go-to’ text on the subject.

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