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Titolo: | Critical reflections : on physical culture at the edges of empire / / Francois Johannes Cleophas, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Stellenbosch : , : Sun Press, , 2021 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
Disciplina: | 613.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Physical education and training - Philosophy |
Human body (Philosophy) | |
Persona (resp. second.): | CleophasF |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This groundbreaking anthology provides a transnational view of the use of physical culture practices - to strengthen, discipline, and reimagine the human body. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Critical reflections |
ISBN: | 1-928480-69-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910794669703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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