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String of Pearls
This book entitled String of Pearls comprises twelve short stories. Every story in this collection probes into the myriad complexities of human life. The stories reveal Ms. Banu’s profound insight, keen vision, and broad perception about the variegated aspects of human life. However, her wistful dream for a symphony and harmony in the human life journey runs as an undertone in all her stories. The delicacy of her creative imagination, subtle characterization, vivid plotlines, subdued humour and pathos impart an endearing and enduring touch to this collection. Besides, each story testifies to Ms. Banu’s knowledge about the rich melody and pulsating rhythm of everyday life experiences. The ideas expressed in this collection are marked by a healthy vision of human life. Therefore, it makes an endearing book for all age groups.
Athletic Activism
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
Tackling the Everyday
A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game. Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities, a free but devalued college education, and future financial instability. In one of the first ethnographies about Black college football players, anthropologist Tracie Canada reveals the ways young athletes strategically resist the exploitative systems that structure their everyday lives. Tackling the Everyday shows how college football particularly harms the young Black men who are overrepresented on gridirons across the country. Although coaches and universities constantly invoke the misleading "football family" narrative, this book describes how a brotherhood among Black players operates alongside their caring mothers, who support them on and off the field. With a Black feminist approach—one that highlights often-overlooked voices—Canada exposes how race, gender, kinship, and care shape the lives of the young athletes who shoulder America's favorite game.
Sport in Korea
With growing interest in Korean sports and its social significance from academia and in public, Sport in Korea: Culture, Politics and Policy brings together research on social, cultural, and political aspects of Korean sports today.
The Mediating Power of Sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world stage.
Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport
Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.
Writings About Kashmir
Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. These chapters are interdisciplinary interventions that could potentially bridge ethnic, religiocultural, and political divides in the region. The book is divided into three sections: the first section explores history and memory, offering a critical dialogue between these phenomena and fiction. The chapters in section two offer a critical dialogue between history, politics, and gender, analyzing historical and political discourses to underscore t...
Cultures of Sport Hazing and Anti-Hazing Initiatives for the 21st Century
Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
Filipino American Sporting Cultures
"The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation of identities in various sporting spaces. It covers a well-known and globally-popular boxing icon, Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao while also accounting for the everyday experiences of Filipina/o Americans in sport which include basketball leagues and a flag football tournament"--
