Description

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This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities.

About the Author

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Souvik Naha is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Post-colonial History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has published extensively in colonial and postcolonial history, including a monograph and several edited journal special issues. He is the Joint Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society and Associate Editor of Sport in History.Dominic Malcolm is Professor of Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, England. He has authored 5 monographs, edited 9 anthologies and written over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Review for the Sociology of Sport.