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Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century

Identity Projects in Uncertain Times

Herausgeber: Naha, Souvik

Beschreibung

This book presents a historical understanding of contemporary society by examining beliefs, attitudes, and practices generated by cricket. It examines how cricket reflects twenty-first-century shifts in nationalism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and authoritarianism, and explores how identities derived from the sport impact global identity politics.

Autor

Souvik Naha is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Postcolonial History at the University of Glasgow. He has a PhD in History from ETH Zurich and held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions fellowship at Durham University. His recently published book is Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780192889287
• ISBN-10: 0192889281
• Artikelnr.: 73518970