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 | , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2024.
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| Series | Research in the sociology of sport ;
20. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781804557846 |
| DOI | 10.1108/S1476-2854202420 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.