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  • Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century

    Identity Projects in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Souvik Naha ...
    This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the contemporary global landscape characterized by unsettling dynamics in identity politics, state authority, capitalism, nationalism, and nationhood, during the twenty-first century. Using cricket as a lens, it argues that the sport plays a profound role in a global society. This sport has not only generated the contexts and tools for shaping, ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Cricket in the 21st Century

    Edited by Souvik Naha, Dominic Malcolm ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century.Cricket’s struggle for global recognition and the shifting concerns about cricket’s perceived ‘character’ provide two of the most significant meta-narratives to shape the game’s historical and future development. However, in contrast to the degree of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Global and Transnational Sport

    Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains

    Edited by Souvik Naha ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports – baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse – across the two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few years in the very present. Drawing on the methods of history, international ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance

    Edited by Souvik Naha, David Hassan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Sport governance no longer stirs public opinion only when scandals surface; it has become a persistent concern for a number of stakeholders, such as the media, sport followers, and corporates that produce and sponsor sport. Contemporary sport governance is characterised by tension between sport’s potential for commercial benefit on the one hand and moral education and social development on the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Moments, Metaphors, Memories

    Defining Events in the History of Soccer

    Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Race to the Bottom

    Reclaiming Antiracism

    by Azfar Shafi, Ilyas Nagdee ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
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    Building Antiracist Futures

    Edited by Joshua Virasami ...
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  • Beyond Grievance

    What the Left Gets Wrong about Ethnic Minorities

    by Rakib Ehsan ...
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    The Quest for a Different Scotland

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    Series Book 1 - Open Scotland
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  • Sports Events, Society and Culture

    Edited by Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher, Nicola Mccullough ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
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