{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-sporting-body-contemporary-indian-investigations-9781804557839","title":"The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Veena Mani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together leading as well as emerging scholars involved in research on sport and body, this volume of \u003cem\u003eResearch in the Sociology of Sport\u003c\/em\u003e invokes the postcolonial sporting body to understand the long history of contemporary practices of play as well as their renewed, re-charged and re-signified animation within new conditions and contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponding to an ongoing critical need for decolonisation in and through academic work related to sport in postcolonial nation-states, the dual focus of the collection is to unite a dwindling and often opaque body of scholarship on post-coloniality with the robust, exciting and cutting-edge work on the body in order to illuminate the challenges of sport studies in particular contexts and geographies, as well as possibilities for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRooted in the belief that scholarship discussing postcolonial sporting bodies has a central role in the shaping of future policies and practices, \u003cem\u003eThe Postcolonial Sporting Body\u003c\/em\u003e occupies the meeting point between post-coloniality, sport and body to consider the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45299606618263,"sku":"9781804557839","price":10133.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781804557839.webp?v=1769285841","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-sporting-body-contemporary-indian-investigations-9781804557839","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}