Cricket in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Naha, Souvik; Malcolm, Dominic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003830207
• Artikelnr.: 69237786

Autorenporträt

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