The Politics of Sport in South Asia

Herausgeber: Chakrabarti, Shantanu; Chatterjee, Kingshuk; Chakraborty, Subhas Ranjan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and promoted as national events both in public opinion and in the media. This book seeks to explore some aspects of the notion of power in sport in south Asia and among south Asians abroad. The first two chapters deal with the internal societal dimensions of the politics of sport; the next three relate to the politics inside the sporting world in the subcontinent and its bridge with the broader arena of the society through the media, while the last five relate to the use of sports in statecraft, consensus building and international politics. This book was based on two special issues of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780415850056
• ISBN-10: 0415850053
• Artikelnr.: 37086842

Autorenporträt

Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty teaches European History at Presidency College, Kolkata. Shantanu Chakraborti specialises in Indian foreign policy, and teaches international relations at the Department of History, Calcutta University. Kingshuk Chatterjee specialises in Islamic Politics in the modern world, and teaches European History at Scottish Church College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Fields of Power Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu
Chakraborti and Kingshuk Chatterjee 2. Physical Education, Sport and the
Intersection and Articulation of 'Modernities': The Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak
Mandal Joseph S. Alter 3. The Hindu Ascetic as Fitness Instructor: Reviving
Faith in Yoga Chandrima Chakraborty 4. The Centrality of Cricket in
Indo-Australian Relations: India, Australia and the 'Cricket Imaginary'
Brian Stoddart 5. Feel Good, Goodwill and India's Friendship Tour of
Pakistan, 2004: Cricket, Politics and Diplomacy in Twenty-First-Century
India Kausik Bandyopadhyay 6. The Golden Years of Indian Hockey: 'We Climb
the Victory Stand' Boria Majumdar 7. 'The Wood Magic': Cricket in India - A
Postcolonial Benediction Somshankar Ray 8. The Culture and Politics of
Local Sporting Heroes in Late Colonial Bengal and Princely Orissa: The Case
of Santimoy Pati Projit B. Mukharji 9. Fair's Unfair: Simulations of
Consumption and Career in Indian Advertising Anisha Datta 10. The Great
Indian Willow Trick: Cricket, Nationalism and India's TV News Revolution,
1998 - 2005 Nalin Mehta 11. Reading Cricket Fiction in the Times of Hindu
Nationalism and Farmer Suicides: Fallacies of Textual Interpretation
Nissim Mannathukkaren 12. Virtually There: Cricket, Community, and Commerce
on the Internet Sanjay Joshi