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Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa: African Perspectives

Autor Joshua D. Rubin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 sep 2021
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect, Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions and practices.Drawing inspiration from the observation that South Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial past into the country's contemporary political moment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472075003
ISBN-10: 0472075004
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 7 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria African Perspectives


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Joshua D. Rubin is Lecturer in Anthropology at Bates College.

Descriere

Examines the political significance of rugby in South Africa’s post-apartheid present