Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fletcher, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is often argued that migrant and diasporic communities have developed a particular fondness for the game of cricket precisely because it allowed them to engage in anti-colonial struggle(s) against England. In so doing their experiences of playing, supporting and watching the sport help to shed light on the problematic relationships between power, colonialism and, in many cases, the experience of being colonised.

This book was published as a special issue of Identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317401209
• Artikelnr.: 56961804

Autorenporträt

Thomas Fletcher (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. His research interests include: 'race'/ethnicity, social identities, families and pets, and equity and diversity in sport and leisure. Thomas has published in a range of peer review journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Research Online, Identities, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Leisure/Loisir. He is co-editor of Diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure (Routledge, 2014) and Sports events, society and culture (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cricket, migration and diasporic communities 2. Sport and
the performative body in the early work of C.L.R. James 3. A narrative
exploration of gender performances and gender relations in the Caribbean
diaspora 4. Cricket in the 'contact zone': Australia's colonial far North
frontier, 1869-1914 5. Breaking down racial barriers? The Maharaja of
Patiala's 1935 Australian cricket tour of India 6. It's because we're
Indian, innit?' Cricket and the South Asian diaspora in post-war Britain 7.
Negotiating their right to play: Asian-specific cricket teams and leagues
in the UK and Norway