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- Creator
- Randy Martin, Toby Miller, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- vii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816631834, 0816631832, 9780816631841, 0816631840
- OCLC
- ocm40255989
- Portions previously appeared as a special issue of Social text, v. 50, spring 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Fielding Sport: A Preface to Politics? / Randy Martin and Toby Miller -- Competing Allegories / Toby Miller -- Pt. I. Building Nations. Kung Fu Cinema, Frugality, and Tanzanian Asian Youth Culture: Ujamaa and Tanzanian Youth in the Seventies / May Joseph. The Nation in White: Cricket in a Postapartheid South Africa / Grant Farred. Batting against the Break: On Cricket, Nationalism, and the Swashbuckling Sri Lankans / Qadri Ismail -- Pt. II. Building Bodies. The Composite Body: Hip-Hop Aerobics and the Multicultural Nation / Randy Martin. Aerobics and Feminism: Self-Determination or Patriarchal Hegemony? / Michael Real. Building a Better Body: Male Bodybuilding, Spectacle, and Consumption / Jon Stratton. On Mexican Pro Wrestling: Sport as Melodrama / Heather Levi -- Pt. III. Buying and Selling Nations and Bodies. Field of Soaps: Rupert v. Kerry as Masculine Melodrama / David Rowe and Jim McKay. Cultural Links: An International Political Economy of Golf Course Landscapes / Bradley S. Klein. Talking Trash: Late Capitalism, Black (Re)Productivity, and Professional Basketball / Gitanjali Maharaj -- Pt. IV. Signifying Sport. Head Fake: Mentorship and Mobility in Hoop Dreams / Bruce Robbins. Back-Page Bylines: Newspapers, Women, and Sport - An Interview with Liz Kahn, Mary Jollimore, and Wanda Jamrozik / Amanda Smith. Sports Trademarks and Somatic Politics: Locating the Law in a Critical Cultural Studies / Rosemary J. Coombe