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Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics responds to the
rise and revival of nationalistic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian
forms of hegemony, power, and control. Importantly, as a collection
of essays, it foregrounds and (re)politicises debates around race
and racism, recognising the significance of leisure spaces to the
emergence of bottom-up, polymorphous, and dynamic forms of
community, resistance, and belonging. A range of authors present a
critical and varied exploration of the global manifestations of
state-based, increasingly mainstream, racist politics, whilst
concomitantly unpicking connected assemblages of power and control.
For example: how homonormativity and whiteness structure queer
visibility, sexual and civic rights; how white supremacist rhetoric
is transformed and differently coded through anti-Black university
traditions and state pride; how Western nation-states structure
Muslim identity as opposite to national identity; how leisure
becomes the site of protest against larger classist and corporate
ventures; and how the hegemony of neoliberal, state, and municipal
planning practices, and policies about rights to spaces of the
neighbourhood, city, and sport, are understood, negotiated, and
challenged. The book serves to not only enhance understanding of
populist politics but, also, to demand an end to ethnic and racial
violence perpetuated through nationalistic and racialised
discourses about belonging, citizenship, and social rights to the
nation. This edited volume will be a key resource for students and
scholars interested in the dynamics of race, gender, and nation,
and the politics of belonging in the realm of leisure. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Leisure Studies.
The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently -
been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be
a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls
and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent
their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This
international collection of critical essays provides compelling
insight into the lived realities of ethnic 'Other' females in
sport. Throughout the book, contributors either draw on the
political consciousnesses of 'Other' feminisms, or privilege the
voices of ethnic 'Other' girls and women so as to broaden,
diversify and advance critical thinking pertaining to ethnic
'Other' females in sport and physical culture. The purpose of the
collection is both to produce knowledge and privilege otherwise
subjugated knowledges, which individually and collectively present
counter-narratives that better speak to the lived realities of
racially oppressed groups of women and girls. Race, Gender and
Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women is important
reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the
sociology of sport, gender studies, or race and ethnicity studies.
The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently -
been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be
a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls
and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent
their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This
international collection of critical essays provides compelling
insight into the lived realities of ethnic 'Other' females in
sport. Throughout the book, contributors either draw on the
political consciousnesses of 'Other' feminisms, or privilege the
voices of ethnic 'Other' girls and women so as to broaden,
diversify and advance critical thinking pertaining to ethnic
'Other' females in sport and physical culture. The purpose of the
collection is both to produce knowledge and privilege otherwise
subjugated knowledges, which individually and collectively present
counter-narratives that better speak to the lived realities of
racially oppressed groups of women and girls. Race, Gender and
Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women is important
reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the
sociology of sport, gender studies, or race and ethnicity studies.
In A Nation of Family and Friends, sociologist Aarti
Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between
South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Mining
autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the
UK) she links the chapters of this innovative book using the
sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they
relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of
race, gender, and the nation. Ratna underscores the importance of
studying informal spaces of sport and leisure as friendly,
familial, sociable, and political spaces. She simultaneously
highlights the role of earlier sociological research in
disseminating myths about South Asian women as too physically
weak to play competitive sports; culturally passive victims of
South Asian cultures and religions; and as sexually exotic women
requiring saving through colonial and imperial projects led by
white men and women. Ratna also examines two key cultural objects -
the popular films "Bend it Like Beckham" and “Dhan Dhana Dhan
Goal” - to examine in detail the gendered representation of South
Asian soccer players’ engagement in amateur and elite levels of
the sport. She critiques studies of women’s football fandom
and sport that fail to acknowledge social differences relating to
race, class, age, disability, and sexuality. By linking the social
forces (across time and space) that differentially affect their
sporting choices and leisure lifestyles, Ratna portrays
the women of the South Asian diaspora as active agents
in the shaping of their life courses and as skilled navigators of
the complexities affecting their own identities.
Ultimately Ratna examines the intersections of class, caste,
age, generation, gender, and sexuality, to provide a rich and
critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure
choices, pleasures, and lived realities. Â
Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics responds to the
rise and revival of nationalistic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian
forms of hegemony, power, and control. Importantly, as a collection
of essays, it foregrounds and (re)politicises debates around race
and racism, recognising the significance of leisure spaces to the
emergence of bottom-up, polymorphous, and dynamic forms of
community, resistance, and belonging. A range of authors present a
critical and varied exploration of the global manifestations of
state-based, increasingly mainstream, racist politics, whilst
concomitantly unpicking connected assemblages of power and control.
For example: how homonormativity and whiteness structure queer
visibility, sexual and civic rights; how white supremacist rhetoric
is transformed and differently coded through anti-Black university
traditions and state pride; how Western nation-states structure
Muslim identity as opposite to national identity; how leisure
becomes the site of protest against larger classist and corporate
ventures; and how the hegemony of neoliberal, state, and municipal
planning practices, and policies about rights to spaces of the
neighbourhood, city, and sport, are understood, negotiated, and
challenged. The book serves to not only enhance understanding of
populist politics but, also, to demand an end to ethnic and racial
violence perpetuated through nationalistic and racialised
discourses about belonging, citizenship, and social rights to the
nation. This edited volume will be a key resource for students and
scholars interested in the dynamics of race, gender, and nation,
and the politics of belonging in the realm of leisure. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Leisure Studies.
In A Nation of Family and Friends, sociologist Aarti
Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between
South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Mining
autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the
UK) she links the chapters of this innovative book using the
sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they
relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of
race, gender, and the nation. Ratna underscores the importance of
studying informal spaces of sport and leisure as friendly,
familial, sociable, and political spaces. She simultaneously
highlights the role of earlier sociological research in
disseminating myths about South Asian women as too physically
weak to play competitive sports; culturally passive victims of
South Asian cultures and religions; and as sexually exotic women
requiring saving through colonial and imperial projects led by
white men and women. Ratna also examines two key cultural objects -
the popular films "Bend it Like Beckham" and “Dhan Dhana Dhan
Goal” - to examine in detail the gendered representation of South
Asian soccer players’ engagement in amateur and elite levels of
the sport. She critiques studies of women’s football fandom
and sport that fail to acknowledge social differences relating to
race, class, age, disability, and sexuality. By linking the social
forces (across time and space) that differentially affect their
sporting choices and leisure lifestyles, Ratna portrays
the women of the South Asian diaspora as active agents
in the shaping of their life courses and as skilled navigators of
the complexities affecting their own identities.
Ultimately Ratna examines the intersections of class, caste,
age, generation, gender, and sexuality, to provide a rich and
critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure
choices, pleasures, and lived realities. Â
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