Sports and The Global South
Subtitle: Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9783319685014
Description: This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of 'sportive nationalism, ' promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures. By explaining how the realm of social reproduction involving households and communities is integral for play and sports, the book challenges the market-driven 'sports and development' agenda while arguing for a 'sports commons.' By foregrounding issues of justice and care, the book highlights how struggles for recognition, redistribution and representation are central to reimagining sports within an alternative notion of work, play and resistance.
Notes: Source title: Sports and The Global South: Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka (Global Culture and Sport Series)