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Author: Veena Mani
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2024-09-30
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1804557846
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: John Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-27
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1000181901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however, sport has been profoundly affected by the colonial legacy. How are individual nations and different sporting cultures coping with this legacy? What does the end of colonialism mean within particular states and sports? How is postcolonialism linked with struggles of race and identity?Sport was a major tool of colonial power and postcolonialism manifests itself in the modern sporting world in several ways, including the huge number of world class athletes from former European empires and the exploitation of child-workers in postcolonial nations by the sporting goods industries. Many former colonial states place considerable importance on elite sport as a form of representation, yet a small number of such states oppose sport in its western form. This book explores the wealth of issues and experiences that comprise the postcolonial sporting world and questions whether sport can act as a form of resistance in postcolonial states and, if so, how such resistance might manifest itself in the rule-bound culture of sport.Its novel approach and topical focus makes this book essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary sports, postcolonialism, race and ethnic studies.
Author: Simon Featherstone
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781578067718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture
Author: Torsten Schlesinger
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 3830977174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Enqing Tian
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2024-10-07
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1837530807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world stage.
Author: Yoko Kanemasu
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2024-10-10
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1837530882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.
Author: James H. Mills
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1843310333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.
Author: Samantha N. Sheppard
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0520307798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.
Author: Ben Carrington
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1849204292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport′s role in ′the making of race′, the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows how, during the first decades of the twentieth century, the idea of ′the natural black athlete′ was invented in order to make sense of and curtail the political impact and cultural achievements of black sportswomen and men. More recently, ′the black athlete′ as sign has become a highly commodified object within contemporary hyper-commercialized sports-media culture thus limiting the transformative potential of critically conscious black athleticism to re-imagine what it means to be both black and human in the twenty-first century. Race, Sport and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology of culture and sport, the sociology of race and diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, cultural theory and cultural studies.
Author: David L. Andrews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-06-21
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 1118325281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics
