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Sport and Postcolonialism (Hardcover, Revised)
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Sport and Postcolonialism (Hardcover, Revised)
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Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama,
poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in
postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however,
sport has been profoundly affected by the colonial legacy. How are
individual nations and different sporting cultures coping with this
legacy? What does the end of colonialism mean within particular
states and sports? How is postcolonialism linked with struggles of
race and identity?Sport was a major tool of colonial power and
postcolonialism manifests itself in the modern sporting world in
several ways, including the huge number of world class athletes
from former European empires and the exploitation of child-workers
in postcolonial nations by the sporting goods industries. Many
former colonial states place considerable importance on elite sport
as a form of representation, yet a small number of such states
oppose sport in its western form. This book explores the wealth of
issues and experiences that comprise the postcolonial sporting
world and questions whether sport can act as a form of resistance
in postcolonial states and, if so, how such resistance might
manifest itself in the rule-bound culture of sport.Its novel
approach and topical focus makes this book essential reading for
anyone interested in contemporary sports, postcolonialism, race and
ethnic studies.
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