1st Edition
Sports in Postcolonial Worlds
1. Introduction: Rethinking Postcolonial Worlds through Physical Activities
Stanislas Frenkiel, Thomas Riot and Nicolas Bancel
2. Sports Mobilities Across Borders: Postcolonial Perspectives
Niko Besnier
3. Physical Activities through Postcolonial Eyes: A Place of Epistemologic and Historiographical Experimentation
Nicolas Bancel
4. ‘Last Zulu Warrior Standing’: Cultural Legacies of Racial Stereotyping and Embodied Enthno-Branding in South Africa
Benedict Carton and John Nauright
5. Not Quite Free? Irish Postcoloniality and the Career of Pat O’Callaghan
Mike Cronin
6. Imperialisms in the Olympics of the Colonization in the Postcolonization: Africa into the International Olympic Committee, 1910 – 1965
Pascal Charitas
7. From Baggataway to Lacrosse: An Example of the Sportization of Native American Games
Fabrice Delsahut
8. A Roundabout Revolution: Rethinking the Decolonization of Rwanda by the Practices of the Catholic Scouting Movement, 1954 – 1964
Thomas Riot
9. Migratory Networks Used by Algerian Professional Footballers in France: From Colonial Times to the Postcolonial Era, 1932 – 1991
Stanislas Frenkiel
10. Gender Verifications in Sport: From an East/West Antagonism to a North/South Antagonism
Anaı¨s Bohuon
Biography
Nicolas Bancel is historian and professor at the University of Lausanne where he is Director of the Institut des sciences du sport et de l’éducation physique. He is a specialist in the history of sport in a colonial and postcolonial context and also works on the political imaginary of colonialisation.
Thomas Riot is researcher and teacher at the Institute of Sport Studies of Lausanne University. He currently realizes (as part of a post-doctorate) a cultural and comparative history of African de-colonizations.
Stanislas Frenkiel is socio-historian of sport with a specific interest in international sporting migration. He currently works as lecturer at the UFR STAPS of the University of Artois-Liévin.
