‘A carnival of cricket?’: The cricket world cup, ‘race’ and the politics of carnival

Crabbe, Tim; Wagg, Stephen

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“…This expectation was consistent with past research that has shown that events can be used to encourage development Moscardo, 2007) and to convey/project a positive image to the rest of the world (Chalip, Green, & Hill, 2003;Dimanche, 2003;. The event was particularly relevant to the region given the significance of cricket to Caribbean culture (Crabbe & Wagg, 2000;.…”

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confidence: 87%

Essays in event leverage: the strategic use of event leverage in host destinations

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Essays in event leverage: the strategic use of event leverage in host destinations

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“…Scholars of sport and globalization have critiqued a rhetoric of global sport predicated on myths of harmonious cultural pluralism, whereby sport becomes a vehicle for the celebration of difference (Miller, Lawrence, McKay, & Rowe, 2001). In the case of cricket, Crabbe and Wagg (2000) observe that the promotion of the 1999 English CWC as a “carnival of cricket” relies on mobilizing ethnically diverse communities to partake in a celebration of sporting spectacle under the auspicates of sport as a mechanism of social inclusion. Such recourse to multicultural celebration is problematic, they argue, for subscribing to “an Olympian-style pageant of national differences, re-affirming an established, ethnically marked version of the world” (Crabbe & Wagg, 2000, p. 86).…”

Section: Gender Interventions: Global Cricket the Nation And Multicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the case of cricket, Crabbe and Wagg (2000) observe that the promotion of the 1999 English CWC as a “carnival of cricket” relies on mobilizing ethnically diverse communities to partake in a celebration of sporting spectacle under the auspicates of sport as a mechanism of social inclusion. Such recourse to multicultural celebration is problematic, they argue, for subscribing to “an Olympian-style pageant of national differences, re-affirming an established, ethnically marked version of the world” (Crabbe & Wagg, 2000, p. 86). The 2015 CWC advert shares similar sensibilities in promoting cricket as an inclusive game that transcends not only national borders but also social divisions of ethnicity and gender.…”

Section: Gender Interventions: Global Cricket the Nation And Multicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advertising the 2015 Cricket World Cup

Toffoletti

2016

Communication & Sport

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Intersectional accounts of how women sports fans from diverse cultural backgrounds are represented remain largely unconsidered in fandom literature. This article examines an Australian advertisement for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, which features as its main protagonists female cricket fans supporting a variety of countries. It makes use of a transnational feminist cultural studies paradigm to frame a discussion of how commercial sports media narratives situate these fans as “ordinary.” In considering how the multicultural female sports fan is configured as ordinary in the Australian sporting context, I demonstrate the ways in which narratives of gender and nation are mobilized to situate multicultural women as marginal to both the Australian nation and cricket, despite the prominence given to ethnically diverse women in the advertisement. This manoeuvre, I argue, responds to the cultural and economic transformations of cricket globally, simultaneously denying and universalizing difference as a mechanism to assuage the anxieties generated by the decentering of Western power in international cricket.

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“…This was believed to be possible due to an 'ethnocentric imperialist hierarchy' which existed in English cricket (Crabbe and Wagg, 2005). This hierarchy is realised in the way that when English teams toured the colonies they would often replicate forms of the game already being played 'at home', rather than adapting the game's customs to better reflect those of local cultures (Guha, 2002).…”

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Cricket, migration and diasporic communities

Fletcher

2014

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Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora (Burdsey et al. 2013). Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means for creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas of their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this, theories of diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses. Due mainly to its central role in spreading dominant white racial narratives within the British Empire, and the various ways different ethnic groups have 'played' with the meanings and associations of the sport in the (post-)colonial period, cricket is an interesting focus for academic research. Despite W.G. Grace's claim that cricket advances civilisation by promoting a common bond, binding together peoples of vastly different backgrounds, to this day cricket operates strict symbolic boundaries; defining those who do, and equally, do not belong. C.L.R. James' now famous metaphor of looking 'beyond the boundary' captures the belief that, to fully understand the significance of cricket, and the sport's roles in changing and shaping society, one must consider the wider social and political contexts within which the game is played. The collection of papers in this special issue does just that. Cricket acts as the point of departure in each, but the way in which ideas of power, representation and inequality are 'played out' is unique in each.

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‘A carnival of cricket?’: The cricket world cup, ‘race’ and the politics of carnival

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Essays in event leverage: the strategic use of event leverage in host destinations

Essays in event leverage: the strategic use of event leverage in host destinations

Advertising the 2015 Cricket World Cup

Cricket, migration and diasporic communities

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