Sport and South Asian diasporas: playing through time and space

Stanley Thangaraj (Editor), Daniel Burdsey (Editor), Rajinder Dudrah (Editor)

Research output: Book/ReportBook - edited

Abstract

This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices, spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity, (post-) migration, diaspora and transnationalism for global South Asian populations. The chapters provide a critical (re-) examination of the roles that sport playswithinandin relation toSouth Asian groups in the diaspora, and raises a series of pertinent questions regarding the multifarious relationships between sport and South Asianness. The chapters range across a wide variety of disciplines, regions, sports and identifications. They are in conversation with each other while showing the particularity of each diasporic context and relationship to sport. The book encompasses a number of global contexts from the "homeland" (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) to the diaspora (Fiji, Norway, the US, the UK), and addresses a broad range of sporting contexts, including basketball, boxing, cricket, cycling, field hockey, soccer and golf. The chapters combine a range of qualitative methods, including ethnography, auto-ethnography, participant observation, memoir, interview and textual analysis (film, television and print media). This collection comprises the latest cutting edge research in the field, and will be essential reading for scholars and students both of sport and South Asian diasporas.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAbingdon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages142
ISBN (Print)9781138019010
Publication statusPublished - 11 Apr 2014

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