The postcolonial sporting body : contemporary Indian investigations

Bringing together leading as well as emerging scholars involved in research on sport and body, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sport invokes the postcolonial sporting body to understand the long history of contemporary practices of play as well as their renewed, re-charged and re-signifi...

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Other Authors Mani, Veena (Editor), Krishnamurthy, Mathangi (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of sport ; 20.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804557846
DOI10.1108/S1476-2854202420
Physical Description1 online resource (248 pages).

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505 0 |a Introduction / Veena Mani and Mathangi Krishnamurthy -- HISTORIES AND DISCOURSES Chapter 1. The body in Indian sports: a discursive trajectory from colonial to neoliberal times / Sonal Jha -- Chapter 2. The sporty young woman in Bengali Fiction: Moti Nandi's Kalabati / Samata Biswas and Supratik Sinha -- Chapter 3. Colonial affects: desire and power in a sporting figure of the Malabar Special Police / Veena Mani BODIES, SPORT AND SPACE -- Chapter 4. Beyond the body ideal: everyday fitness practices in the public parks of Delhi / Lakshyayog -- Chapter 5. Playing invisible: studying the urban life of football in Bengaluru / Kabir Madan -- Chapter 6. All play and no work? the sporting body inside the classroom in Kerala / Amritha Mohan -- Photo Essay One -- Painful pitches: between railway bridge and mighty Krishna -the story of Mahanadu XI / Aby Abraham -- BETWEEN NATION AND GLOBE -- Chapter 7. The muscular capital of an Indian bodybuilder: local competitions, transnational expectations, and postcolonial realities / Michiel Baas -- Chapter 8. Parenthetical team names, perpetual peripheries, and bodily resistance: early beginnings and contemporary developments in women's football in Goa / Ashish Krishna -- Chapter 9. NBA saviours and the racialisation of India / Stanley Thangaraj -- Photo Essay Two -- Swimming in plain sight: a photo-essay on bodies and swimwear / Pretika Menon. 
520 |a Bringing together leading as well as emerging scholars involved in research on sport and body, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sport invokes the postcolonial sporting body to understand the long history of contemporary practices of play as well as their renewed, re-charged and re-signified animation within new conditions and contexts. Responding to an ongoing critical need for decolonisation in and through academic work related to sport in postcolonial nation-states, the dual focus of the collection is to unite a dwindling and often opaque body of scholarship on post-coloniality with the robust, exciting and cutting-edge work on the body in order to illuminate the challenges of sport studies in particular contexts and geographies, as well as possibilities for the future. Rooted in the belief that scholarship discussing postcolonial sporting bodies has a central role in the shaping of future policies and practices, The Postcolonial Sporting Body occupies the meeting point between post-coloniality, sport and body to consider the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation. 
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