Sports and The Global South: Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka

By Sumithra Janaka Biyanwila

Book Overview

Argues for the reimaging of the pleasure of sports in terms of transforming work and play

Explores authoritarian sports cultures and sports workers' resistance of hierarchical sports cultures

Highlights the violence in both sports and market-driven development of sports consumer markets in the Global South

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319685015
• ISBN13: 9783319685014
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"