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Author: Souvik Naha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1108494587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
Author: Jeffrey Montez de Oca
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1802622039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
Author: Stephen Wagg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-10-09
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1134227191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers: * cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India * the cricket cultures of Australia, New Zealand and post-apartheid South Africa * cricket in England since the 1950s. This new book is ideal for students of sport, politics, history and postcolonialism as it provides stimulating and comprehensive discussions of the major issues including race, migration, gobalization, neoliberal economics, the media, religion and sectarianism.
Author: Veena Mani
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2024-09-30
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 180455782X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
Author: Prashant Kidambi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0198843135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.
Author: Carol Appadurai Breckenridge
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780816623068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book aims to illustrate that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. Behind the embattled arena of culture in India, for example, lie particular social and political interests such as the growing middle class, the entrepreneurs and commercial institutions, and the state. The contributors address the roles of these various intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites which are explored include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants and tourism. The book also makes distinct the differences among public, mass and popular culture.
Author: Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1134683596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.
Author: K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1134023073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores India’s rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.
Author: Boria Majumdar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1317998936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or region. Furthermore, it demonstrates that it would be wrong to understand sport in terms of the exigencies of the colonial state. Drawing inspiration from C.L.R. James' well-known epigram, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' the findings suggest that South Asian sport makes sense only when it is placed within the broader colonial and post-colonial context. The book demonstrates that sport not only influences politics and vice versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political, it is politics, intrigue, culture and art. To deny this is to denigrate the position of sport in modern South Asian society. This volume was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author: John Charles Hawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 031301664X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collapse of empires has resulted in a remarkable flourishing of indigenous cultures in former colonies. The end of the colonial era has also witnessed a renaissance of creativity in the postcolonial world as modern writers embrace their heritage. The experience of postcoloniality has also drawn the attention of academics from various disciplines and has given rise to a growing body of scholarship. This reference work overviews the present state of postcolonial studies and offers a refreshingly polyphonic treatment of the effects of globalization on literary studies in the 21st century. The volume includes more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on postcolonial studies around the world. Entries on individual authors provide brief biographical details but primarily examine the author's handling of postcolonial themes. So too, entries on theoreticians offer background information and summarize the person's contributions to critical thought. Entries on national literatures explore the history of postcoloniality and the ways in which writers have broadly engaged their legacy, while those on important topics discuss the theoretical origin and current ramifications of key concepts in postcolonial studies. Cross-references and cited works for further reading are included, while a comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume.
