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Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities (Hardcover)
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Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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Ever since different communities began processes of global
migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we
conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a
diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful
means for creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas of
their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this, theories of
diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses.
Despite W.G. Grace's claim that cricket advances civilisation by
promoting a common bond, binding together peoples of vastly
different backgrounds, to this day cricket operates strict symbolic
boundaries; defining those who do, and equally, do not belong.
C.L.R. James' now famous metaphor of looking 'beyond the boundary'
captures the belief that, to fully understand the significance of
cricket, and the sport's roles in changing and shaping society, one
must consider the wider social and political contexts within which
the game is played. Contributions to this volume do just that.
Cricket acts as their point of departure, but the way in which
ideas of power, representation and inequality are 'played out' is
unique in each. This book was published as a special issue of
Identities.
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