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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.
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'
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
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
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
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
edited by Veena Mani, Mathangi Krishnamurthy.
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