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Sports in Africa, Past and Present /

Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shiftingexperiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kaur, Tarminder (éditeur.), Cleveland, Todd (éditeur.), Akindes, Gerard (éditeur.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • ONE: Historiography of South African Sports
  • 1: Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sports History
  • TWO: African Sports Pedagogy
  • 2: The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom
  • 3: African Sports in the Liberal Arts Classroom
  • 4: On Teaching South African Sports History at a US University
  • THREE: Resisting Discrimination and Forging Identity through Sports
  • 5: "The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on theEdges of the Cricket Boundary"
  • 14: Sprinting Past the End of Empire
  • EIGHT: The Durable Impact of the Past: Sporting Legacies and Heritage
  • 15: Rugby Transformation as Alibi
  • 16: No Place of Honor
  • 17: The Gift of a Running Shoe
  • ABOUT THE EDITORSAND CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • 6: Nigeria, Women's Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle
  • FOUR: Crossing Racial Boundaries
  • 7: Beyond South Africa's Draconian Racial Segregation
  • 8: Racing out of the Shadows
  • FIVE: On the Margins: Informal Engagements with Sports
  • 9: English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice
  • 10: The Gambling Games
  • SIX: African Sports Migration
  • 11: African Footballers' Migration to Europe
  • 12: Postcareer Precarity
  • SEVEN: Sporting Biographies
  • 13: Black Physical Culture and Weight Lifting in South Africa