Adam Woolf’s research while affiliated with Durham University and other places

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‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United
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April 2024

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International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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... The emergence of the Gulf states and their sports investment strategies has led to contestation in the sporting world. The main dispute is around the notion of 'sportswashing', whereby commentators understand the massive investments of these 'new' authoritarian states to be a deliberate tactic to distract from human rights abuses in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (see Ettinger 2023;Grix et al. 2023;Skey 2022;Fruh et al. 2022;Crossley and Woolf 2024). This contestation is discussed below after each of our case studies. ...

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Authoritarian States and Global Sport: The Contested Cases of Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia
‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics