Critical reflections on physical culture at the edges of empire /

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This groundbreaking anthology provides a transnational view of the use of physical culture practices - to strengthen, discipline, and reimagine the human body. Exploring theses of colonialism, gender disparities, and race relations, this international examination of bodily practices is a must read f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cleophas, F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stellenbosch : SUN PReSS, 2021.
Temas:
Physical education and training > Philosophy.
Human body (Philosophy)
Colonization.
Race relations.
Sex discrimination.
Éducation physique > Philosophie.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Colonisation.
Relations raciales.
Discrimination sexuelle.
colonization.
sex discrimination.
Colonization
Physical education and training > Philosophy
Race relations
Sex discrimination
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Creating a decolonising South African physicalculture archive: A case study of Ron Eland
  • 2. The shaping of non-racial bodybuilding in South Africa: David Isaacs and others
  • 3. Přemysl's soldiers and Libuše's companions: On gender and the limits of female emancipation in the Sokol gymnastic movement
  • 4. Steeplechase: personal reflections on Fit2Run's race of life
  • 5. Imperial benevolence and emancipatory discourses: Harry Crowe Buck and Charles Harold McCloy take the'Y' to India and China in the early decades of the 20th century
  • 6. Re-engaging non-racial sport: The Teachers' League of South Africa (TLSA) and the school sport movement in the Western Cape, 1956-1994
  • 7. Of boots and bare feet: Footwear, race and civilisationin Australian sport before World War II
  • 8. Health for the masses? Physical culture, radio and the state in 1930s Ireland
  • 9. Bats, balls and boards: Islands, beaches and decolonising Pacific sport
  • 10. From apartheid to democracy: the response of Cape Town-based mountain clubs to the changing political landscape, 1970-1994
  • 11. Sport and physical culture at the edges of the imperial project
  • Contributors.

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