Abstract
In asking: 'How does sport help us better understand the richness and complexities of African experiences, in the past and present?', Peter Alegi (2014) sets out an agenda for a field of research, we call: Sports Africa. Over the past three decades, study of sports in African Studies has gained some recognition with its own body of knowledge and debates.
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Sporting subalternities and social justice: rethinking South African sports studiesTarminder Kaur & Gerard AkindesIn asking: ‘How does sport help us better understand the richness and complexities of African experiences, in the past and present?’, Peter Alegi (2014) sets out an agenda for a field of research, we call: Sports Africa
They justified their decision to exclude essays on South Africa and apartheid sports, arguing that the issue was well covered in the existing literature at the time (1987: ix)
While we are indebted to Baker and Williams, and many other historians of sports and Africa, for promoting African sports studies to this stage where it is not as readily dismissed as it once was, this special issue has remained South Africa-focused
Summary
Sporting subalternities and social justice: rethinking South African sports studies. In asking: ‘How does sport help us better understand the richness and complexities of African experiences, in the past and present?’, Peter Alegi (2014) sets out an agenda for a field of research, we call: Sports Africa. Over the past three decades, study of sports in African Studies has gained some recognition with its own body of knowledge and debates This is an achievement of the pioneering sports Africanists and social historians, who wrote on a topic that was yet to be seen worthy of academic scrutiny (see for example: Baker and Mangan 1987; Mélik-Chakhnazarov 1970; Jarvie 1985; Grundlingh 1994 1995; Bale and Sang 1996; Devile-Danthu 1997; Nauright 1998; Booth 1998; Odendaal 2003; Alegi 2004, among others). In an attempt to advance and complicate understandings and debates on social, economic and political winners and losers in Sports and Africa, this introduction starts with theorising sporting subalternities, by drawing into discussion the six research papers and five book reviews
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