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.: 9910825122403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II