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Sport in South Asian Society

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317998944
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Sport in South Asian Society written by Boria Majumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or region. Furthermore, it demonstrates that it would be wrong to understand sport in terms of the exigencies of the colonial state. Drawing inspiration from C.L.R. James' well-known epigram, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' the findings suggest that South Asian sport makes sense only when it is placed within the broader colonial and post-colonial context. The book demonstrates that sport not only influences politics and vice versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political, it is politics, intrigue, culture and art. To deny this is to denigrate the position of sport in modern South Asian society. This volume was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Politics of Sport in South Asia

Author : Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317998367
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Sport in South Asia by : Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty

Download or read book The Politics of Sport in South Asia written by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sport in Asian Society

Author : Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113576042X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Asian Society written by Fan Hong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women and Sport in Asia

Author : Rosa Lopez De D'Amico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100039316X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women and Sport in Asia written by Rosa Lopez De D'Amico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to survey the participation of women in sport and physical education across Asia, from the Middle East and South Asia through to the Asia-Pacific region. Covering sport and physical activity at all levels, from school-based PE and community sport to elite, high-performance sport, the book provides an important overview of developments in policy, theory and research across this complex and dynamic region. It has a strong focus on gender equity but is informed by important intersecting influences that affect the lives of girls and women and their participation in sport. Including contributions from leading scholars from across the region, the book draws on multi-disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, and history, and makes an important contribution to global understanding of diversity, challenges, and achievements in the sporting lives of Asian Women. This book will be a fascinating read for any student, researcher, or policy-maker working in sport studies, gender studies, women’s studies or Asian studies.

The Politics of Sport in South Asia

Author : Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317998375
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Sport in South Asia by : Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty

Download or read book The Politics of Sport in South Asia written by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Soccer in South Asia

Author : Paul Dimeo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135276579
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Soccer in South Asia written by Paul Dimeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined.

Sport in Asian Society

Author : Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135760438
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Asian Society written by Fan Hong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.

Sport and South Asian Diasporas

Author : Stanley Thangaraj
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684281
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Sport and South Asian Diasporas written by Stanley Thangaraj and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices, spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity, (post-) migration, diaspora and transnationialism for global South Asian populations. The chapters provide a critical (re-) examination of the roles that sport plays within and in relation to South Asian groups in the diaspora, and raises a series of pertinent questions regarding the multifarious relationships between sport and South Asianness. The chapters range across a wide variety of disciplines, regions, sports and identifications. They are in conversation with each other while showing the particularity of each diasporic context and relationship to sport. The book encompasses a number of global contexts from the "homeland" (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) to the diaspora (Fiji, Norway, the US, the UK), and addresses a broad range of sporting contexts, including basketball, boxing, cricket, cycling, field hockey, soccer and golf. The chapters combine a range of qualitative methods, including ethnography, auto-ethnography, participant observation, memoir, interview and textual analysis (film, television and print media). This collection comprises the latest cutting edge research in the field, and will be essential reading for scholars and students both of sport and South Asian diasporas. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Nation at Play

Author : Ronojoy Sen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539932
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Nation at Play written by Ronojoy Sen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.

Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia

Author : Friederike Trotier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780815365235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia by : Friederike Trotier

Download or read book Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia written by Friederike Trotier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of six case studies which examine various aspects of the relationship between sport and /or body cultures more generally in East and South East Asian countries. The chapters were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.

Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society

Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317595327
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society written by C. Richard King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. The contributors interrogate the sociocultural contexts in which Asian Americans lived and played, detailing the articulations of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of Asian Americans playing sport in North America. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Asian American experience, ethnic relations, and the history of sport.

Subaltern Sports

Author : James H. Mills
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287273
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Subaltern Sports written by James H. Mills and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume explores sports stories that contain elements of colonialism and show the rise of nationalism and the emergence of communalism; other examples show how the establishment of nationhood in a post-colonial world, the challenge of the regions to the political centre and the impacts of globalization and economic liberalization have all left their mark on the development of sport in South Asia. Quite simply, South Asian history and society have transformed sports in the region while at the same time such games and activities have often shaped the development of South Asia.

Soccer in South Asia

Author : Paul Dimeo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135276501
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Soccer in South Asia written by Paul Dimeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined.

Changing on the Fly

Author : Courtney Szto
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978807953
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Changing on the Fly written by Courtney Szto and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.

Asian American Sporting Cultures

Author : Stanley I. Thangaraj
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479840165
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Sporting Cultures written by Stanley I. Thangaraj and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection between sport and identity formation. Sport plays a special role in the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming American identities. This volume incorporates work on Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered, including examinations of Asian American men’s attempts to claim masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the “Orientalism” evident in discussions of mixed martial arts as practiced by Asian American female fighters. This American story illuminates how marginalized communities perform their American-ness through co-ethnic and co-racial sporting spaces.

Modern Sport - The Global Obsession

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317997956
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Modern Sport - The Global Obsession written by Boria Majumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game- it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in nationalism, entertainment, patriotism and culture. Now a global obsession, sport has infiltrated into all areas of modern life and despite noble ideals that sport stands above politics, religion, class, gender and ideology, the reality is often very different. These essays by leading academics and rising new talent consider the phenomenon of modern sport and its massive influence over global society. Together, this collection is also a tribute to the pioneering and inspirational work of Professor J.A. Mangan on the political, religious, class and gender-based aspects of modern sport, from academics greatly influenced by him and his writing. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sport in Asian Society

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Frank Cass & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780714683300
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Asian Society written by J. A. Mangan and published by Frank Cass & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the role sports has played in Asian culture and society.