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Animated by Uncertainty - Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa (Hardcover)
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Animated by Uncertainty - Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa (Hardcover)
Series: African Perspectives
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In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African
rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months
of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and
administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of
performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape
the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect,
Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting
politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports
themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate
how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways
that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions
and practices. Drawing inspiration from the observation that South
Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin
highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of
performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial
past into the country's contemporary political moment.
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