Overview
- Argues for the reimagining of the pleasure of sports in terms of transforming work and play
- Explores authoritarian sports cultures and sports workers’ resistance of hierarchical sports cultures
- Highlights the violence in both sports and market-driven development of sports consumer markets in the Global South
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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About this book
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.
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Book Title: Sports and The Global South
Book Subtitle: Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka
Authors: S. Janaka Biyanwila
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68502-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68501-4Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09837-7Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68502-1Published: 05 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 375
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work