Boria (Hrsg.) Majumdar

Cricketing Cultures in Conflict

Cricketing World Cup 2003

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The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realize its dream of political unity.Dealing with themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalisation, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations.Looking at recent developments such as match-fixing, the abolition of the quota system and the performances of the South African national team, the collection examines the importance of the Cricket World Cup in providi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mangan, J A (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-135-77065-5
EAN: 9781135770655
Produktnummer: 18430888
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'304 KB

Über den Autor

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, is currently Deputy Director of the International Research Center for Sport, Socialisation and Society, De Montfort University, Bedford. A visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2004), he has completed his doctorate on the Social History of Indian Cricket at St. John's College, Oxford University. Deputy Executive Academic Editor of theInternational Journal of the history of Sport (Routledge) and Series Editor, Sport in the South Asian Society (Yoda Press), his publications include, Twenty Two Yards to Freedom-(Penguin Viking) Once Upona Furore: Controversies of Indian Cricket, (forthcoming, 2004), Sport in South Asian Society- Past and Present (co-edited with J.A. Mangan), Routledge, 2004, The Oxford Companion of Indian Cricket, OUP (Forthcoming).