Overview
- Identifies and analyses the spirit of cricket to show how this has been used in a cultural and political way
- Focuses on "ethos" as a crucial element of sporting identity
- Discusses social issues such as race, class, religion, imperialism in relation to cricket
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The work examines the impact of globalisation and marketization on cricket and analyses the shift from an English dominance, on a sport that is ever-increasingly being shaped by Asian forces.
The book’s distinctiveness lies in trying to decode the spirit of the game, outlining a set of actual characteristics rather than a vague sense of values. An historical analysis shows how imperialism, nationalism, commercialism and globalisation have shaped and adapted these characteristics. As such it will be of interest to students and scholars of sport sociology, post-colonialism, globalisation as well as those with an interest in the game of cricket and sport more generally.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cricket's Changing Ethos
Book Subtitle: Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
Authors: Jon Gemmell
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76339-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76338-5Published: 14 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09470-6Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76339-2Published: 28 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 307
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Globalization