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Zusatztext 'Another splendid academic study from Berg.'Programme Monthly and Football Collectable 'Bale and Cronin have provided a clear and remarkably jargon-free overview of the potential of postcolonialism for informing us about sport.'Sport! Education and Society Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext Sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. This book fills the gap by exploring the effect of the colonial legacy on sport both locally and globally. Sport was a major tool of colonial power. Postcolonialism manifests itself in the modern sporting world in several ways, from the huge number of world class athletes from former European empires to the exploitation by the sporting goods industries of child-workers in postcolonial nations. Many former colonial states place considerable importance on elite sport as a form of representation, yet a small number of such states oppose sport in its western form. This book explores the wealth of issues and experiences that comprise the postcolonial sporting world and questions whether sport can act as a form of resistance in postcolonial states and if so, how such resistance might manifest itself in the rule-bound culture of sport. Zusammenfassung Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies.
List of contents
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
