The Changing Face of Cricket : From Imperial to Global Game

ISBN-13: 9780415443296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

Dominic Malcolm;Boria Majumdar;J. A. Mangan

Opis

This book provides a ‘state of the art’ review of the academic study of cricket. It defines the current state of the field and will serve as the springboard for future research and scholarship of the game.

Cricket seeks to explore and chart the various ways in which social scientists have analysed the social significance of the game. The double issue will be international in scope, drawing together scholars from Australia, the Caribbean, England, India, New Zealand, North America and South Africa. An interdisciplinary approach will be taken, drawing together geographers, historians, sociologists, literary critics as well as those in the sub-disciplines of gender studies, media studies and post-colonial studies.

Cricket opens with by a brief introductory statement  by the editors which introduces the reader to the main developmental dynamics of the game, provides an overview of research in the field, and sets an agenda for its future development. This is then followed by several insightful chapters divided across five sections. These five sections include:

• History and Diffusion
• Politics and Policy
• People and Personalities
• Playing Matters
• Commercialization and Globalization.

By drawing on such diverse perspectives, Cricket will prove to be the essential reader in cricket studies.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Spis treści

1. Cricket and Modernity: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Imperial Game  Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell and Nalin Mehta  2. Naturally Played by Irishmen: a Social History of Irish Cricket  Jon Gemmell  3. South African Cricket and British Imperialism, 1870 – 1910  Dean Allen  4. Irish Australians, Postcolonialism and the English Game  Alan Bairner  5. ‘From Far it Look Like Politics’: C.L.R. James and the Canon of English Cricket Literature  Anthony Bateman  6. ‘Fiery Fred’: Fred Trueman and Cricket Celebrity in the 1950s and Early 1960s  Jack Williams  7. Rebellion, Race and Rhodesia: International Cricketing Relations with Rhodesia During UDI  Charles Little  8. A National(ist) Line in Postcolonizing Cricket: Viv Richards, Biographies and Cricketing Nationalism  Malcolm MacLean  9. Brian Lara in Poetic Form: Tradition, Talent and the Caribbean ‘mwe’  Claire Westall  10. Wunderkidz in a Blunderland: Tensions and Tales From Sri Lankan Cricket  Michael Roberts  11. Batting for the Flag: Cricket, Television and Globalization in India  Nalin Mehta  12. Different Hats, Different Thinking? Technocracy, Globalization and the Indian Cricket Team  Stephen Wagg and Sharda Ugra  13. Malign or Benign? English National Identities and Cricket  Dominic Malcolm  14. ‘Look, it’s a Girl’: Cricket and Gender Relations in the UK  Philippa Velija and Dominic Malcolm  15. International Cricket – the Hegemony of Commerce, the Decline of Government Interest and the End of Morality?  Russell Holden  16. A Legacy Deeply Mired in Contradiction: World Cup 2007 in Retrospect  Boria Majumdar  17. Burning Down the House  Rob Steen  18. A Strong Sport Growing Stronger: a Perspective on the Growth, Development and Future of International Cricket  Ehsan Mani  19. ‘Bombay Sport Exchange’: Cricket, Globalization and the Future  Nalin Mehta, Jon Gemmell and Dominic Malcolm

O autorze

Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, ExerciseandHealth Sciences at Loughborough University and Convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sport Study Group. He has published numerous papers on historical and sociological aspects of cricket and has recently expanded his research interests to include the critical sociological analysis of sports medicine. He has published a number of co-edited texts - The Future of Football, Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Sport Histories, and Matters of Sport.He is author of the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies published in 2008. Jon Gemmell teaches History and Sociology at Kennet School, Thatcham. He is the author of The Politics of South African Cricket, and has written a number of articles exploring the links between race/ethnicity, politics and cricket in South Africa, Australia and Ireland. He is the co-editor of Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup and is currently working on a history of the ethos of cricket. Nalin Mehta is Founding Joint Editor of South Asian History and Culture and Trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation. A Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2007), he is the author of India on Television and Olympics: The India Story. He works for the Global Fund, Geneva, and is currently co-writing a history of the Commonwealth Games and Delhi 2010.