Review Essays

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] This is an expanded version of a review commissioned originally by Sporting Traditions and appears in the November 2004 edition of that journal. Permission to build on that review for this current version was supplied kindly by the editors of Sporting Traditions. [2] David Rowe and Antonio Gramsci, ‘Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular’, in Richard Giulianotti (ed.), Sport And Modern Social Theorists (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). [3] Tim Parks, A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals (London: Vintage, 2002). [4] This is obviously a truncated and generalized description of the line of thought inspired by Ranajit Guha. For the deeper view, see Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (eds), Selected Subaltern Studies (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988); Ranajit Guha, A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986–1995 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997); Vinayak Chaturvedi (ed.), Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (London: Verso, 2000); Dipesh Chakrabarty, Habitations of Modernity: Essays In The Wake Of Subaltern Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are many other sources for further illumination of the analysis. [5] For a recent summary, see Brian Stoddart, ‘Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James And Cricket’, in Richard Giulianotti (ed.), Sport And Modern Social Theorists (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). [6] For some speculations here, see Brian Stoddart ‘Globalisation, Sport, Change and Meaning in the Contemporary World’, Tirra Lirra (forthcoming). [7] It might be pointed out here that for all the assertions about the swaying power of ‘the media’ (largely undefined), there has been little attention paid to some of the more sophisticated approaches to sports media analysis, best represented in David Rowe' excellent Sport, Culture and the Media (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999). [8] See Arjun Appadurai, ‘Playing With Modernity: Decolonization of Indian Cricket’, in his Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), and Manu Madan, ‘“It's Just Not Cricket”. World Series Cricket: Race, Nation and the Diasporic Indian Community’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 24 (2000). [9] Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Odyssey (Melbourne: Text, 2002). [1] Specialist Schools: An Evaluation of Progress (Office of the Chief Inspector of Schools, 2001), p.12. [2] See his Series Editor's Foreword to P. Dimeo and J. Mills (eds), Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora (London: Cass, 2001), pp.xii–xiii. [3] J.A. Mangan, The Games Ethic and Imperialism: Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal, (London: Cass, 2000). [4] J.A. Mangan (ed.), The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society, (London: Cass, 1992), see pp.7–9. [1] N. Elias and E. Dunning, Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), p.5. [2] G. Mellor, ‘The Genesis of Manchester United as a National and International “Super-Club”, 1958–68’, Soccer and Society, 1, 2 (Summer 2000), 151–66.