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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Creating a decolonising South African physicalculture archive: A case study of Ron Eland -- 2. The shaping of non-racial bodybuilding in South Africa: David Isaacs and others -- 3. Přemysl's soldiers and Libuše's companions: On gender and the limits of female emancipation in the Sokol gymnastic movement -- 4. Steeplechase: personal reflections on Fit2Run's race of life -- 5. Imperial benevolence and emancipatory discourses: Harry Crowe Buck and Charles Harold McCloy take the'Y' to India and China in the early decades of the 20th century -- 6. Re-engaging non-racial sport: The Teachers' League of South Africa (TLSA) and the school sport movement in the Western Cape, 1956-1994 -- 7. Of boots and bare feet: Footwear, race and civilisationin Australian sport before World War II -- 8. Health for the masses? Physical culture, radio and the state in 1930s Ireland -- 9. Bats, balls and boards: Islands, beaches and decolonising Pacific sport -- 10. From apartheid to democracy: the response of Cape Town-based mountain clubs to the changing political landscape, 1970-1994 -- 11. Sport and physical culture at the edges of the imperial project -- Contributors |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking anthology provides a transnational view of the use of physical culture practices - to strengthen, discipline, and reimagine the human body. Exploring theses of colonialism, gender disparities, and race relations, this international examination of bodily practices is a must read for all sport historians and those interested in physical training and its meanings. Erudite, solid, enlightening, this is a truly valuable book for our field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Physical education and training -- Philosophy
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Colonization.
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Race relations.
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Sex discrimination.
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colonization.
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sex discrimination.
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Colonization
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Physical education and training -- Philosophy
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Race relations
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Sex discrimination
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cleophas, F., editor.
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| ISBN |
1928480691 |
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9781928480693 |
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