Animated by Uncertainty
Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
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2021
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07500-3 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07500-3 (ISBN)
Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, Joshua Rubin argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put.
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect, Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions and practices. Drawing inspiration from the observation that South Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial past into the country's contemporary political moment.
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect, Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions and practices. Drawing inspiration from the observation that South Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial past into the country's contemporary political moment.
Joshua D. Rubin is Lecturer in Anthropology at Bates College.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby
Chapter 2: Sons and Commodities: Work, Play, and the Politics of Autonomy at the Margins of Professional Rugby
Chapter 3: Residual Uncertainty: Play, Injuries, and Rugby’s Masculine Ideal
Chapter 4: Searching for Certainty: Rugby and Male Identity in a Former Model C School
Chapter 5: Fractured Frames: Rugby, Imaginative Resistance, and the Legacies of the Struggle against Apartheid
Chapter 6: In Apartheid’s Image: Rugby and Nationalist Spectacle in South Africa
Conclusion
Endnotes
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | African Perspectives |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 333 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-07500-4 / 0472075004 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-07500-3 / 9780472075003 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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