Globalizing Cricket Englishness, Empire and Identity

by Malcolm, Dominic

• ISBN13: 9781849665278
• ISBN10: 1849665273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - its key points of development, the diffusion of cricket through colonization, and its impact on the changing notions of English national identity. Dominic Malcolm analyzes the game from a wide range of international contexts, and demonstrates how these cricketing cultures interact. Whilst empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader issues such as social development, race, diasporic and national identities and post-colonialism. This book traces the beginnings of cricket as a 'folk game' through to the present, drawing together strands of different theories to examine the meaning of modern day cricket. Malcolm explores how this quintessential English game developed and spread around the world,and how cricket has come back to influence a now multicultural twenty-first century Britain.

Author Biography

Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University. He is co-editor of The Changing Face of Cricket: From Imperial to Global Game, and The Social Organization of Sports Medicine, and author of Sport and Sociology and The Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Globalizing CricketChapter 1. The Emergence of CricketChapter 2. The 'National Game': Cricket in Nineteenth Century England Chapter 3. The Imperial Game: Cricket and Colonization Chapter 4. Cricket in America Chapter 5. Cricket in the Caribbean Chapter 6. Cricket and the Celtic NationsChapter 7. Cricket and Diasporic Identities in Post-Imperial Britain Chapter 8. Cricket and Changing Conceptions of EnglishnessChapter 9. Cricket, the English and the Process of 'Othering'ConclusionReferences