Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation

ISBN-13: 9781138579330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Michael John Gennaro; Saheed Aderinto

Opis

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a window to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

Spis treści

Part 1: Region-Based Essays  1. "I Was Really Disgusted at Seeing Healthy Young Boys Playing Ping Pong": Ping-Pong and Masculinity in Post–World War II Nigeria  2.  Pas de Deux as I Tell You: Physical Education, Dance, and the Remaking of Discipline in World War II Brazzaville  3. Cameroonian Cricket: The Interface between Local and Dominant Colonial Ideologies  4. Political Action in Sports Development Under the National Liberation Council (NLC) Era in Ghana  5. "The Best of the Best": The Politicization of Sports under Ghana’s Supreme Military Council  6. "We Have Material Second to None": Colored Sportsmen and Masculine Competition in the South African Press, 1936–1960  7. Playing Away from Home: The Nature of Soccer Integration in South Africa, 1978–1984  8. Examining Physical Culture in a Local Context  9. "Visionary Courtyard Players": The Robben Island Rugby Board and the Transition to Post-Apartheid South Africa, c. 1972–1992  10. The Birth of the Springboks: How Early International Rugby Matches Unified White Cultural Identity in South Africa  11. A Tale of Two Sports Fields: Contested Spaces, Histories, and Identities at Play in Rural South Africa  12. The Bulldog, the Pharaoh, and Football: British Imperialism and Egypt’s National Sport and Identity, 1882–1934  13. Sports and Physical Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Occupation, 1936–1941  Part 2: Theme Based Essays  14. Commercialization of Football in Africa: Prospects, Challenges, and Experiences  15. Islam and the Foreign Other: Representing the Alterity of Hakeem Olajuwon  16. Afro-Orientalism in the Global Village: Media Imaginations of South Africa and Africa in the Coverage of the 2010 World Cup