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This volume aims to forge interest in the field of sports studies and offers a platform for a wide range of studies on sports, employing a variety of approaches, perspectives, and methodologies.
List of contents
- Introduction
- The Struggle for Sports Commons: The South Asian Context
- S. Janaka Biyanwila
- 2. Ethnicity, Class, Leisure and Aspirations: Football in Mumbai's Sociospatial Dynamics
- D Parthasarathy
- 3. India's Olympic Encounter: Sport, Identity and Nation
- Boria Mazumdar
- 4. Indian Volleyball: From Local Contexts to Global Realities
- Bino Paul
- 5. Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering: Identity, Labour and Power in Sport
- Vrinda Marwah
- 6. Women's Cricket in India: Expanding the Inclusionary Possibilities of Sport
- Raadhika Gupta
- 7. Testing the Limits of Science: Sex Difference and Athletic Ability in Elite Sport
- Madeleine Pape
- II. Reflections on Sports Studies: Transcending Disciplines
- 8. A Sociological Understanding of Sport in India
- Elizabeth C.J. Pike
- 9. Labours of Care in Sport: Reflections on Feminist Practice in Athletics
- Meena Gopal
- 10. Perspectives on Sports History in India: Present Challenges and Future Directions
- Kausik Bandyopadhyay
- III. Nurturing Sports: Crucibles of Growth
- 11.. A City and a Sport: Hockey in Calcutta
- Nikhilesh Bhattacharya
- 12.. Goa's Football Story: Of Unity and Hegemony
- Frederick Noronha
- 13. Local Clubs and Sports Culture in Kerala: Community at the Centre
- S. Mohammed Irshad
- 14. Nurturing Sports Talent: What Role Do Academies Play?
- Pulasta Dhar
- Section IV: State, Sports and Development : Policy and Regulation
- 15. The Uneven Development of Sports Policy: Legal Regimes, Legislation and Governance
- Kruthika N.S. and Sarthak Sood
- 16. Mega Sport Events, Development and Tourism
- EQUATIONS
- 17. Doping : Ramifications for Indian Sports
- K P Mohan
- 18. Performance Enhancing Substances in Sports: Towards Country-specific Harm Reduction Strategies
- Kaveri Prakash
- 19. Sports for Development and Peace: From Global to Local
- S. Ananthakrishnan
- 20. Reimagining Play: Football, Muslim Women and Empowerment
- Sabah Khan
- Section V: Movies, Media and Technology
- 21. The Nationalist Imaginary in the Bollywood Sports Film
- Nissim Mannathukkaren
- 22. The Sports Celebrity and the Biopic
- Pramod K. Nayar
- 23. Breaking into the Press Box and After: A First Person Account
- Sharda Ugra
- 24. State, Market and Media in Indian Cricket
- Avipsu Halder
- 25. Who Watches Cricket? The New Spectator in the Sporting-Entertainment Complex
- Vidya Subramaniam
About the author
Padma Prakash (ed.) is editor, eSocialSciences, and director, IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai, India.
Meena Gopal (ed.)is professor, Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Summary
Sports Studies in India, as a part of The Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society, emerges from a sociological curiosity about sporting experience in terms of participation in sports as well as its theorization in scholarship. This volume aims to forge interest in the field of sports studies and offers a platform for a wide range of studies on sports, employing a variety of approaches, perspectives, and methodologies. The contributions in this volume sport as a microcosm of society, which affords an opportunity to understand the complex nexus of society-state-media. They also examine sport within a political economy perspective through lenses of religion, gender, and class, among others. Interspersed in this collection are case studies, critical explorations of sports in Bollywood, and autobiographical accounts that not only enrich the narrative, but also demonstrate the value of that different genres bring to the discourse of sports studies. In a pandemic-afflicted world where sports is taking new shape, when new norms may well come into being, this collection establishes a framework for understanding change in the realm of sports and society in India
