Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century - Identity Projects in Uncertain Times

This book presents a historical understanding of contemporary society by examining beliefs, attitudes, and practices generated by cricket. It examines how cricket reflects twenty-first-century shifts in nationalism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and authoritarianism, and explores how identities derived from the sport impact global identity politics.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Souvik Naha is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Postcolonial History at the University of Glasgow. He has a PhD in History from ETH Zurich and held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions fellowship at Durham University. His recently published book is Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta.

Zusammenfassung

This book presents a historical understanding of contemporary society by examining beliefs, attitudes, and practices generated by cricket. It examines how cricket reflects twenty-first-century shifts in nationalism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and authoritarianism, and explores how identities derived from the sport impact global identity politics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Souvik (Senior Lecturer Naha
• Mitarbeit: Souvik Naha (Herausgeber), Souvik (Senior Lecturer Naha (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9780192889287
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288928-7
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Ratgeber > Sport > Allgemeines, Lexika, Handbücher, Jahrbücher, Geschichte; cricket, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cricket, Social and cultural history, Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence