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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: postcolonial sporting body
    sub title: contemporary Indian investigations
  name:
    name part: Mani, Veena
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Krishnamurthy, Mathangi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : photos.
  abstract: Bringing together leading as well as emerging scholars involved in research on sport and body, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sportinvokes the postcolonial sporting body to understand the long history of contemporary practices of play as well as their renewed, re-charged and re-signified animation within new conditions and contexts. Responding to an ongoing critical need for decolonisation in and through academic work related to sport in postcolonial nation-states, the dual focus of the collection is to unite a dwindling and often opaque body of scholarship on post-coloniality with the robust, exciting and cutting-edge work on the body in order to illuminate the challenges of sport studies in particular contexts and geographies, as well as possibilities for the future. Rooted in the belief that scholarship discussing postcolonial sporting bodies has a central role in the shaping of future policies and practices, The Postcolonial Sporting Bodyoccupies the meeting point between post-coloniality, sport and body to consider the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
  table of contents: Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Introduction -- What about the Body? -- Gender -- Race and Caste -- The Postcolonial Sporting Body -- Policies, Laws, and Plans -- Contributions to the Volume -- References -- Histories and Discourses -- Chapter 1: The Body in Indian Sports: A Discursive Trajectory from Colonial to Neoliberal Times -- Sport and Colonialism -- The Politics of the Body -- Contending with 'Indian-ness'
  table of contents: Liberalisation and Sport in 'New India' -- Sport as Spectacle -- Sport as Aspiration -- Sport as Empowerment -- Neoliberal Visions of the Body -- Decolonising (Through) Sport -- Key Readings -- References -- Chapter 2: The Sporty Young Woman in Bengali Fiction: Moti Nandi's Kalabati -- Introduction -- About Moti Nandi -- About the Kalabati Series -- Locating Femininity in Bengali Children's Fiction and in Indian Sporting Practices -- Postcolonial Femininity as Masquerade -- Conclusion -- Key Readings -- References
  table of contents: Chapter 3: Colonial Affects: Desire and Power in a Sporting Figure of the Malabar Special Police -- Colonial Setting -- Rahim Gafoor: Inaccessible Locations -- Conclusion -- Key Readings -- References -- Bodies, Sport, and Space -- Chapter 4: Beyond the Body Ideal: Everyday Fitness Practices in the Public Parks of Delhi -- Contextualising Physical Activity and Fitness Activities -- Physical Activity as a Policy Subject and Everyday Urban Spaces -- Fitness Practices in Public Parks: Bodies, Space and Publicness -- Docile Bodies Versus Active Citizens: Governmentalisation of Fit Bodies
  table of contents: Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Playing Invisible: Studying the Urban Life of Football in Bengaluru -- The Visible and the Invisible Stadium -- Training for Invisibility -- Conclusion: Ideology of the Field -- Key Readings -- References -- Chapter 6: All Play and No Work? The Sporting Body Inside the Classroom in Kerala -- Introduction -- Duel with Dualisms: Theoretical Moorings Around the Sporting Body -- The Postcolonial Sporting Body in India -- Context, Limitations, and Methods -- Narratives from the Sports Quota: The 'Unintelligent' Sporting Body in the Classroom
  table of contents: Disembodied Pedagogy -- Conclusion -- References -- Photo Essay One -- Painful Pitches: Between Railway Bridge and Mighty Krishna -- The Story of Mahanadu XI -- The Stumper -- The Ghats of the Mighty Krishna and Colonial Remnants -- References -- Between Nation and Globe -- Chapter 7: The Muscular Capital of an Indian Bodybuilder: Local Competitions, Transnational Expectations, and Postcolonial Realities -- Bodybuilding in India -- Navigating Different Bodily Ideals -- A 'Natural' Investment in the Body -- The Past and Present of Muscular Capital -- The Bodybuilder's Body as a Site of Exploration
  note: edited by Veena Mani, Mathangi Krishnamurthy.
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    geographic: Commonwealth countries
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    geographic: Pays du Commonwealth
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Sociology: sport and leisure
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  classification: GV706.5 .P67 2024
  classification: 306.4/83
  classification: 308
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1442330742
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 20
  identifier: 9781804557822 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781804557846
  identifier: 1804557846
  identifier: 180455782X
  identifier: 1804557838
  identifier: 9781804557839
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240919
    record change date: 20250813013756.0
    record identifier: in00005659914
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng