1st Edition
Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics
Foreword: The white open
Lala Zannell
1. Leisure and the racing of national populism
Stanley Thangaraj, Aarti Ratna, Daniel Burdsey and Erica Rand
2. Queer inclusion precludes (Black) queer disruption: media analysis of the Black lives matter Toronto sit-in during Toronto Pride 2016
Ali Greey
3. Heritage as hate: racism and sporting traditions
Gabby M.H. Yearwood
4. In the garden of domestic dystopia: racial delirium and playful interference
Brian E. Kumm and Corey W. Johnson
5. Enacting and resisting the politics of belonging through leisure. The debate about gender-segregated swimming sessions targeting Muslim women in Denmark
Verena Lenneis and Sine Agergaard
6. Making a locality: the politics of land and football in North Kerala
Veena Mani and Mathangi Krishnamurthy
7. Anti-colonial critiques of sport mega-events
Heather Sykes and Manal Hamzeh
8. Public leisure space and community-based action
Rodrigo Tramutolo Navarro, Daniella Tschöke Santana and Simone Rechia
Afterword: A commitment to the task at hand
Urooj Shahzadi
Biography
Aarti Ratna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Solent University, UK. Ratna is the co-editor of Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic ‘Other' Girls and Women (2017).
Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College, USA. Rand is the author of Barbie’s Queer Accessories (1995), The Ellis Island Snow Globe (2005), Red Nails, Black Skates (2012), and The Small Book of Hip Checks (2021).
Daniel Burdsey is Reader in the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton, UK. Burdsey is the author of British Asians and Football: Culture, Identity, Exclusion (2007), Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge (2016), and Racism and English Football: For Club and Country (2020).
Stanley Thangaraj is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies at the City College of New York, USA. Thangaraj is the author of Desi Hoop Dreams (2015) and co-editor of Asian American Sporting Cultures (2016).
