Friederike Trotier is a Research Assistant at the Department of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies at Passau University, Germany. In her PhD thesis, she analysis the role of sporting events in the changing Indonesian history and the local agency after Indonesia's decentralization process with the example of Palembang as sports city. Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK. He is co-editor of The Politics of the Olympics: a survey (2010) and the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (2017). He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science. |