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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Souvik (Senior Lecturer Naha
• Assisted by: Souvik Naha (Editor), Souvik (Senior Lecturer Naha (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9780192889287
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288928-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; 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