Sports In African History Politics And Identity Formation

Author : Michael J. Gennaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429668554
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation written by Michael J. Gennaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. The contributors detail various sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress. Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on African sports, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and society, and sports history and politics.

Author : Christopher B. Knaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000577759
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonising African Higher Education written by Christopher B. Knaus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the African continent, college student activists have long fought to decolonise African institutions. Reflecting ongoing Western colonisation, however, Indigenous African languages, thought, and structures remain excluded from African universities. Such universities remain steeped in Eurocentric modes of knowing, teaching, researching, and communicating. Students are rarely afforded the opportunity to learn about the wealth of knowledge and sustainable wisdom that was and is generated by their own home communities. Such localised Indigenous African perspectives are critical in a world committed to anti-Black racism, capitalist materialism, and global destruction. This book thus clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the continent. Writers are university administrators and faculty who directly challenge contemporary colonial education, exploring tangible ways to decolonise structures, curricula, pedagogy, research, and community relationships. Ultimately, this book moves beyond structural transformation to call for a global commitment to develop Indigenous African-led systems of higher education that foster multilingual communities, local knowledges, and localised approaches to global problems. In shifting from a Western-centric lens to multifaceted African-centrism, the authors reclaim decoloniality from co-optation, repositioning African intellectualism at the core of global higher education to sustain an Ubuntu-based humanity.

Author : Michael J. Gennaro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000779351
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic written by Michael J. Gennaro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African diaspora, its history, and culture. The book explores the history of sports, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, rugby, cricket, and track-and-field athletics to show athlete and fan protests in sport intersected with discourses of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and the idea of progress. It shows how sport in the African diaspora is a crucially important lens through which to understand the challenges, changes, and continuities of Black Atlantic history, the history of protest, and racism. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, social and cultural history, post-imperial history and decolonization, or the sociology of sport, race, and political protest.

Author : Abdullah Al-Arian
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787389278
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football in the Middle East written by Abdullah Al-Arian and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this region has been cast into the global footballing spotlight, raising issues of geopolitical competition, consumer culture and social justice. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the complex questions raised by the phenomenon of football as a significant cultural force in the Middle East, as well as its linkages to broader political and socioeconomic processes. The establishment of football as a national sport offers significant insight into the region’s historical experiences with colonialism and struggles for independence, as well as the sport’s vital role in local and regional politics today–whether at the forefront of popular mobilisations, or as an instrument of authoritarian control. Football has also served as an arena of contestation in the formation of national identity, the struggle for gender equality, and the development of the media landscape. The twelve contributions to this volume draw on extensive engagement with the existing body of literature, and introduce original research questions that promise to open new directions for the study of football in the Middle East.

Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000353303
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport History written by Gerald R. Gems and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fundamental text for the study of sport history. It answers the ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘what’ questions, introducing the key principles and practices of sport history and walking the reader through the fascinating stories, debates, issues, and national and international narratives that constitute the history of sport. The book provides an overview of the field and the various professional roles assumed by practitioners, such as researchers, academics, and public historians. It is brief, crisp, and to the point. The main general topics of interest within the field – gender, race, nationalism, religion, sport and leisure, and megaevents – are covered with introductory vignettes, stories of interest, a wide variety of theoretical frameworks, and relevant historiography in the most current and timely text of its kind. Each chapter provides a list of further readings for more in-depth study. Students are taught how to conduct research and present their findings in a variety of mediums, and teaching and publication tips are offered for educators. Sport History: The Basics is essential reading for any student on a sport-related degree course or with an interest in social and cultural history. It is also fascinating reading for anybody with a general interest in sport.

Author : Michelle M Sikes
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177495
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya's Running Women written by Michelle M Sikes and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Pauline Konga’s breakthrough performance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, the world has become accustomed to seeing Kenyan women medal at major championships, sweep marathons, and set world records. Yet little is known about the pioneer generation of women who paved the way for Kenya’s reputation as an international powerhouse in women’s track and field. In Kenya’s Running Women: A History, historian and former professional runner Michelle M. Sikes details the triumphs and many challenges these women faced, from the advent of Kenya’s athletics program in the colonial era through the professionalization of running in the 1980s and 1990s. Sikes reveals how over time running became a vehicle for Kenyan women to expand the boundaries of acceptable female behavior. Kenya’s Running Women demonstrates the necessity of including women in histories of African sport, and of incorporating sport into studies of African gender and nation-building.

Author : Augustine E. Ayuk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030948668
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football (Soccer) in Africa written by Augustine E. Ayuk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, from a social science perspective. The selection of these countries highlights the three major foreign languages and powers that have governed the continent; The English, the French, and Arabic, and provides a prism through which to analyze and compare how football developed in the various countries throughout Africa. This comparative methodology allow readers to identify similarities and differences in the progression of the game on the continent, and by focusing on football, an important relic of European colonialism in Africa, underscores the continued dependence on, and domination of Europeans on the Africans. In situating the genesis of the game, contributors examine and analyze the history, development, management, and mismanagement by bureaucrats at the political level as well as at various football federations throughout the continent.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303149167X
Total Pages : 995 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities written by Ezra Chitando and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical and analytical approaches, topics and debates in contemporary scholarship on African masculinities. Refusing to privilege Western theoretical constructs (but remaining in dialogue with them), contributors explore the contestations around and diversities within men, masculinities and sexualities in Africa; investigate individual and collective practices of masculinity; and interrogate the social construction of masculinities. Bringing together insights from scholars across gender studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, literature and religion, this book demonstrates how recognizing and upholding the integrity of African phenomena, locating and reflecting on men and masculinities in varied African contexts and drawing new theoretical frameworks all combine to take the discourse on men and masculinities in Africa forward. Chapters examine a range of issues within the context of masculinities, including embodiment, sport, violence, militarism, spirituality, gender roles, fatherhood, homosexuality, health and work. This handbook will be valuable reading for scholars, researchers, and policymakers in Gender Studies (particularly Masculinity Studies) and Africana Studies.

Author : Francois Johannes Cleophas
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928480691
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire written by Francois Johannes Cleophas and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking anthology provides a transnational view of the use of physical culture practices - to strengthen, discipline, and reimagine the human body. Exploring theses of colonialism, gender disparities, and race relations, this international examination of bodily practices is a must read for all sport historians and those interested in physical training and its meanings. Erudite, solid, enlightening, this is a truly valuable book for our field.

Author : Simon C. Darnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137439440
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development written by Simon C. Darnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change. Integrating the history of international development with the history of modern sport, the authors examine the underpinnings of sport-for-development from the mid-19th through the early 21st centuries. Including both archival research and extensive interviews with more than 15 individuals who were central to the institutions and movements that shaped sport as a force for development, this book will be of particular interest to the growing number of scholars, students, practitioners, advocates and activists interested in the possibilities and limitations of sport-for-development.