228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
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Compared 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... Read more
Notes on Contributors, Introduction: Sport and Postcolonialism, 1. The Last Night of the Poms: Australia as a Postcolonial Sporting Society?, 2. 'Black' Bodies 'White' Codes: Indigenous Footballers, Racism and the Australilan Football League's Racial and Religious Vilification Code, 3. Sport, Indigenous Australians and Invader Dreaming: A Critique, 4. Making Strange the Country and Making Strange the Countryside: Spatialized Clashes in the Affective Economies of Aotearoa/New Zealand during the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour, 5. Sport, Postcolonialism and Modern China: Some Preliminary Thoughts, 6. 'Paki Cheats!' Postcolonial Tensions in England-Pakistan Cricket7. 'When Gold is Fired It Shines': Sport, the Imagination and the Body in Colonial and Postcolonial India, 8. 'Theatre of Dreams': Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township, 9. The Postcolonial and the Level Playing-field in the 1998 World Cup, 10. Sport, Nationality and Postcolonialism in Ireland, 11. Football and FIFA in the Postcolonial World, Bibliography, Index
Biography
John Bale Visiting Professor of Sports Studies,University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University Mike Cronin Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University
