Chris Mcmillan

Cricket, Capitalism and Class

From the Village Green to the Cricket Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history, development, exigencies and contradictions of capitalist political economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032261676
• ISBN-10: 1032261676
• Artikelnr.: 72543390

Autorenporträt

Chris McMillan is a Professional Teaching Fellow in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a sociologist with a particular interest in the intersections of cultures of capitalism, sport, cities and public policy. Chris is an active, if ineffective, cricketer and has played recreationally for East Coast Bays Cricket Club in New Zealand as well as Kew Cricket Club in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Origins
1. Class: Cricket's Original Sin
2. Cricket and Ideology: The Fantasmatic Logic of the Village Green
3. Cricket and the Modern Gentleman: Class in Twenty-First Century English Cricket
Part II: Empire
4. Cricket and the Making of Global Capitalism: Aotearoa
Exploitation and Expropriation
5. Cricket
Capitalism and Colonial Rule: The Case of India
6. Cricket
Power and Post-Colonial Resistance: The Case of the West Indies
Part III: Geopolitics
7. Cricket's Asian Century: The Rise of the IPL
8. Franchises
Freelancers and Representation: Cricket
Neoliberalism and Nationalism
9. Cricket and Racial Capitalism: The South African Case
Part IV: Late Capitalism
10. Consuming Cricket: Cricket and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
11. Producing Cricket: The Cricket-Media Complex
12. Cricket and Patriarchal Capitalism: Recognising Batters
13. Liberation/Alienation/Exploitation: Global Capitalism and the Women's Premier League
Conclusion: Cricket in the Wreckage of Capitalism