This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities.
This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities.
Souvik Naha is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Post-colonial History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has published extensively in colonial and postcolonial history, including a monograph and several edited journal special issues. He is the Joint Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society and Associate Editor of Sport in History. Dominic Malcolm is Professor of Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, England. He has authored 5 monographs, edited 9 anthologies and written over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century Part 1 - Emerging Networks in Global Cricket 1. Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere 2. Capitalism and the ethics of sport governance: a history of the board of control for cricket in India 3. From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket 4. Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket 5. Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century Part 2 - Shifting Topographies of National Cricket 6. Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia 7. The development of cricket in China 8. Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity 9. Cricket, society and religion: a study of increasing religiosity in the national cricket team of Pakistan 10. No-ball! When transformation, indigenization and politicking overstepped into Zimbabwean cricket 11. Quotas in South African cricket: what the players say Part 3 - Negotiating Diversity in English Cricket 12. Towards a safer past: thoughts on the invocation of English cricket's soul 13. "The 'blazer boys' were getting all the chances": South Asian men's experiences of cricket coaching in England 14. Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie 15. Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket
Introduction: Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century Part 1 - Emerging Networks in Global Cricket 1. Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere 2. Capitalism and the ethics of sport governance: a history of the board of control for cricket in India 3. From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket 4. Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket 5. Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century Part 2 - Shifting Topographies of National Cricket 6. Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia 7. The development of cricket in China 8. Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity 9. Cricket, society and religion: a study of increasing religiosity in the national cricket team of Pakistan 10. No-ball! When transformation, indigenization and politicking overstepped into Zimbabwean cricket 11. Quotas in South African cricket: what the players say Part 3 - Negotiating Diversity in English Cricket 12. Towards a safer past: thoughts on the invocation of English cricket's soul 13. "The 'blazer boys' were getting all the chances": South Asian men's experiences of cricket coaching in England 14. Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie 15. Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket
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