Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gennaro, Michael J.; Aderinto, Saheed

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a window to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429668647
• Artikelnr.: 56149450

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Gennaro is Assistant Professor of History at Bossier Parish Community College, USA. Saheed Aderinto is Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Region-Based Essays 1. "I Was Really Disgusted at Seeing Healthy
Young Boys Playing Ping Pong": Ping-Pong and Masculinity in Post-World War
II Nigeria 2. Pas de Deux as I Tell You: Physical Education, Dance, and the
Remaking of Discipline in World War II Brazzaville 3. Cameroonian Cricket:
The Interface between Local and Dominant Colonial Ideologies 4. Political
Action in Sports Development Under the National Liberation Council (NLC)
Era in Ghana 5. "The Best of the Best": The Politicization of Sports under
Ghana's Supreme Military Council 6. "We Have Material Second to None":
Colored Sportsmen and Masculine Competition in the South African Press,
1936-1960 7. Playing Away from Home: The Nature of Soccer Integration in
South Africa, 1978-1984 8. Examining Physical Culture in a Local Context 9.
"Visionary Courtyard Players": The Robben Island Rugby Board and the
Transition to Post-Apartheid South Africa, c. 1972-1992 10. The Birth of
the Springboks: How Early International Rugby Matches Unified White
Cultural Identity in South Africa 11. A Tale of Two Sports Fields:
Contested Spaces, Histories, and Identities at Play in Rural South Africa
12. The Bulldog, the Pharaoh, and Football: British Imperialism and Egypt's
National Sport and Identity, 1882-1934 13. Sports and Physical Education in
Ethiopia during the Italian Occupation, 1936-1941 Part 2: Theme Based
Essays 14. Commercialization of Football in Africa: Prospects, Challenges,
and Experiences 15. Islam and the Foreign Other: Representing the Alterity
of Hakeem Olajuwon 16. Afro-Orientalism in the Global Village: Media
Imaginations of South Africa and Africa in the Coverage of the 2010 World
Cup