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Critical Issues in Sport and Society Ser.: Nation of Family and Friends? : Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women by Aarti Ratna (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-10197883411X
ISBN-139781978834118
eBay Product ID (ePID)26061953133
Product Key Features
Number of Pages164 Pages
Publication NameNation of Family and Friends? : Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectSociology of Sports, Europe / Great Britain / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, History
AuthorAarti Ratna
SeriesCritical Issues in Sport and Society Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight7.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2023-027104
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23/eng/20231208
Reviews A Nation of Family and Friends? offers a much-needed exploration into the sporting and leisure experiences of South Asian women, which has thus far lacked visibility and depth of analysis. I commend Aarti Ratna on the work put into this project and her determination to create something unique and against the grain., Sometimes, a book comes along that not only resonates deeply on a personal level but also serves as a rich and thought-provoking resource for analytical exploration. . . . With profound insights and a sharp sociological lens, Ratna crafts a narrative that is both deeply personal and globally relevant, leaving the reader questioning their role and complicities in challenging and/or upholding the social inequalities in the worlds of sports and the academy. Grounded in the traditions of Black, Brown and ethnic other feminisms, Ratna offers novel methodological and analytical concepts to scrutinise the potential of sporting spaces for contesting and reproducing intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities., Philosophically expansive, theoretically sophisticated, and methodologically complex, A Nation of Family and Friends? charts new intertextual terrains that elevate our understandings of South Asian diasporas, race, gender, ethnicity, class, and leisure. With incredible analytic precision, Aarti Ratna provides a must read for those interested in the politics of belonging, nationalism, and ethno-nationalism. A brilliant book in the service of social justice!
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal305.48/8914041
Table Of ContentCover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface: Sibling Rivalries Introduction: A Sporting Nation of Family and Friends? 1. The Making of the "South Asian Woman" Interlude One: Engaging My "Erotic" 2. Walking with Friends and Family Interlude Two: Homing Desires 3. Gendering the Racial Production of Sporting Films Interlude Three: The Heartness of Darkness 4. The Politics of Sporting Conviviality Conclusion: South Asian Women, Mothers, Workers, Lovers, Players, Fans, and Friends Epilogue: An Antiracist Feminist Tool Kit Acknowledgments References Index
SynopsisIn A Nation of Family and Friends , sociologist Aarti Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Mining autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the UK) she links the chapters of this innovative book using the sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of race, gender, and the nation. Ratna underscores the importance of studying informal spaces of sport and leisure as friendly, familial, sociable, and political spaces. She simultaneously highlights the role of earlier sociological research in disseminating myths about South Asian women as too physically weak to play competitive sports; culturally passive victims of South Asian cultures and religions; and as sexually exotic women requiring saving through colonial and imperial projects led by white men and women. Ratna also examines two key cultural objects - the popular films "Bend it Like Beckham" and "Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal" - to examine in detail the gendered representation of South Asian soccer players' engagement in amateur and elite levels of the sport. She critiques studies of women's football fandom and sport that fail to acknowledge social differences relating to race, class, age, disability, and sexuality. By linking the social forces (across time and space) that differentially affect their sporting choices and leisure lifestyles, Ratna portrays the women of the South Asian diaspora as active agents in the shaping of their life courses and as skilled navigators of the complexities affecting their own identities. Ultimately Ratna examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, to provide a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities., In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.
LC Classification NumberDA125
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