1. Introduction: Cricket, migration and diasporic communities Thomas Fletcher
2. Sport and the performative body in the early work of C.L.R. James Simon Featherstone
3. A narrative exploration of gender performances and gender relations in the Caribbean diaspora Janelle Joseph
4. Cricket in the ‘contact zone’: Australia’s colonial far North frontier, 1869–1914 Matthew Stephen
5. Breaking down racial barriers? The Maharaja of Patiala’s 1935 Australian cricket tour of India Megan Ponsford
6. It’s because we’re Indian, innit?’ Cricket and the South Asian diaspora in post-war Britain Parvathi Raman
7. Negotiating their right to play: Asian-specific cricket teams and leagues in the UK and Norway Thomas Fletcher and Thomas Walle
Biography
Thomas Fletcher (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. His research interests include: ‘race’/ethnicity, social identities, families and pets, and equity and diversity in sport and leisure. Thomas has published in a range of peer review journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Research Online, Identities, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Leisure/Loisir. He is co-editor of Diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure (Routledge, 2014) and Sports events, society and culture (Routledge, 2014).
