Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2451-3 (ISBN)

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Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.

These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa’s dynamic place in the world.

Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of “civilizing” indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and “muscular Christianity,” Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya’s world-class long-distance runners, pitches and stadiums in communities large and small, fandom and pay-to-watch kiosks, the sporting diaspora, sports pedagogy, sports as resistance and as a means to forge identity, sports heritage, the impact of politics on sports, and sporting biography.

Todd Cleveland is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His books include these Ohio University Press titles: Sports in Africa, Past and Present (2020), Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (2017), Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975 (2015), and Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds (2014). Tarminder Kaur is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg. Her research is particularly concerned with the everyday sporting lives of South African laborers and working-class peoples, who are often characterized as “in need of development.” She is currently working on a monograph that explores the role of soccer and violence in the legacies of oscillating labor migration between apartheid’s Bantustans and the commercial agriculture centers of the Western Cape. Gerard Akindes is a senior program specialist with the Josoor Institute in Qatar. His research interests include the migration of African athletes, the political economy of sports broadcasting in Africa, and African sports management. His most recent work examines football academies and education in Senegalese football development.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: More Than Just Games (Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, and Gerard Akindes)

PART ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS

1. Reflections on Pathways to the Writing of South African Sports History (Albert Grundlingh and Sebastian Potgieter)

PART TWO: AFRICAN SPORTS PEDAGOGY

2. The Final Frontier: African Sports Studies in the Classroom (Todd Cleveland)

3. African Sports in the Liberal Arts Classroom (Matt Carotenuto)

4. On Teaching South African Sports History at a US University (Peter Alegi)

PART THREE: RESISTING DISCRIMINATION AND FORGING IDENTITY THROUGH SPORTS

5. “The Gist of the [Game] Is Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary”: The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Africa, 1934–95 (Trishula Patel)

6. Nigeria, Women’s Football, and Resisting the Second Fiddle (Chuka Onwumechili and Jasmin M. Goodman)

PART FOUR: CROSSING RACIAL BOUNDARIES: SPORTS AND APARTHEID

7. Beyond South Africa’s Draconian Racial Segregation: Transkeian Surfing Narratives, 1966–94 111 (David Drengk)

8. Racing out of the Shadows: Black Competitive Cycling in Johannesburg and Cape Town, ca. 1900–1964 (Todd H. Leedy)

PART FIVE: ON THE MARGINS: INFORMAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH SPORTS

9. English Premier League Football Kiosks and the Emergence of Communal Television Viewing as a Sporting Practice: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya (Solomon Waliaula)

10. The Gambling Games: “Unorganized Structure” of South African Soccer (Tarminder Kaur)

PART SIX: AFRICAN SPORTS MIGRATION: EUROPEAN DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

11. African Footballers’ Migration to Europe: Shifting Perspectives and Practices (Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, Michel Raspaud, and Malek Bouhaouala)

12. Postcareer Precarity: Occupational Challenges among Former West African Footballers in Northern Europe (Christian Ungruhe and Sine Agergaard)

PART SEVEN: SPORTING BIOGRAPHIES

13. Black Physical Culture and Weight Lifting in South Africa (Francois Cleophas)

14. Sprinting Past the End of Empire: Seraphino Antao and the Promise of Sports in Kenya, 1960–64 (Michelle Sikes)

PART EIGHT: THE DURABLE IMPACT OF THE PAST: SPORTING LEGACIES AND HERITAGE

15. Rugby Transformation as Alibi: Thoughts on Craven and Coetzee (Derek Charles Catsam)

16. No Place of Honor: The Erosion of Historical Space and Place within the Kimberley Rugby Narrative (Mark Fredericks)

17. The Gift of a Running Shoe: Heritage and the Comrades Marathon House (Marizanne Grundlingh)

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8214-2451-3 / 0821424513
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2451-3 / 9780821424513
Zustand	Neuware