Making a locality: the politics of land and football in North Kerala

Mani, Veena; Krishnamurthy, Mathangi

doi:10.1080/02614367.2018.1480651

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“…Sevens football is a regional variation of football popular in Malappuram and broadly in Malabar, which involves seven players in each team (as opposed to the standard 11) playing a faster game on a smaller ground. It is important to note that Sevens is “an unofficial format, not approved by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) or concurrently by the Kerala Football Association (KFA)” (Mani and Krishnamurthy, 2018: 12). Nevertheless, Sevens has been institutionalized efficiently and has become successful in not only expanding its reach further outside the Malabar region in Kerala but also heightening the enthusiasm surrounding the game, and legitimizing football as a career option within the state (Kannangara and Devarapalli, 2017: 120).…”

Section: A Migrant In the Land Of Emigrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labour migration, the Arabian Gulf, and the expanding territorial imagination in Malayalam cinema

Yadukrishnan

2023

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Mainstream Malayalam cinema of the south Indian state of Kerala has, for the most part, attempted to sidestep the significance of Gulf migration to the region’s development. Part of the reason for this historical neglect has been the prevalence of a particular hegemonic vantage point within the films that has centralized the narratives of the landed elites in Kerala, eliding the various historically marginalized communities within the state. This article engages with a recent development within the film industry. It examines how Gulf migration has shaped the affective dimensions and expanding territorial imagination of the New Malayalam Cinema, which has positioned labour migration as one of its central thematic concerns. It is argued that this shift was made possible by the displacement of the universalized territorial imagination of the landed elites in the state that dominated its film industry for most of its history. Subsequently, this article will closely study how director Zakariya places his debut film Sudani from Nigeria (2018) within this new cinematic category, and will demonstrate how he portrays the region of rural Malappuram in north Kerala as a nexus of various migrant experiences, crucially invoking an underlying older order of cosmopolitanism prevalent in the region, fuelled partly by the history of Gulf migration and partly by a tradition and history of migration and transnationalism that predates the formation of the Indian state.

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Section: A Migrant In the Land Of Emigrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labour migration, the Arabian Gulf, and the expanding territorial imagination in Malayalam cinema

Yadukrishnan

2023

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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“…Before joining KFC Kalikavu, Babu was a star player for the Fishermen Club, a local club in Ottummal that celebrated its diamond jubilee in May 2023. Like Babu's Fishermen Club, other arts and sports clubs in Kerala, especially in the Malabar region, play an essential role in providing social spaces for citizens to engage with public institutions and to offer modes of political engagement distinct from mainstream political organizations (Mani & Krishnamurthy 2018).…”

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Fisherfolk and football: An ethnographic tale of loss in a changing climate

Haneefa

2023

Anthropology Today

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Sea level rise is dramatically altering the daily lives of fisherfolk in the Ottummal coastal region of Malabar, India. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork to explore the erosion of subaerial beaches, which have traditionally served as vital social and cultural touchstones for the community. It examines the profound impact of this erosion on the community's leisure activities, particularly their beloved pastime of football. It also analyses the local government's proposed strategy of managed retreat, which involves relocating vulnerable communities away from threatened areas. It considers its limitations in light of the fisherfolk's deep emotional and cultural connections with their lands and non‐material culture. The article posits that while climatologists and satellites can give a bird's eye view, anthropologists and ethnographers can give a worm's eye view of climate change.

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“…While the question of what is leisure was not often times taken on by the texts of this historiography, the impact of that question was the crucial focus of the texts. In this historiography, leisure was then also the site of socio-historical and socio-political dominance and resistance in society (Britton, 1991;D.R Williams, 2002;Hollingshead, 2008;Mani & Krishnamurthy, 2018;McAvoy, 2002;Mowatt, 2012;Santos & Buzinde, 2007;Smale, 2006;Sykes & Hamzeh, 2018;Theriault & Mowatt, 2018). This reality falls in line with seeing modern leisure practices through one of key scholars of this alternative or counter tradition, Chris four areas of privatization, individuation, commercialization, and pacification.…”

Section: Critical Leisure Studies: Four Traditionsmentioning

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A people’s history of leisure studies: a historiography of four traditions of critical leisure studies

Mowatt

2021

Leisure/Loisir

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Recent calls for papers in numerous academic journals within leisure studies have focused on a global and nation-specific climate that leans towards autocratic policy development, fascist rhetoric as the norm, and a greater expansion of a neoliberal philosophy. A critical leisure approach critiques leisure studies and leisure research for what the construction of leisure is in its origin and in its function. The aim of this discussion is to present counter, critical narratives to leisure studies. Two hundred and ninety-two texts that focused on the 'critical' in leisure were read and analyzed through critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The analysis resulted in a historiography that articulates four key alternative or counter traditions: Critical Leisure Studies; New Leisure; Post-Leisure Studies; and Anti-Leisure, which could aid leisure studies into taking on a role as a 'new' cultural studies. RÉSUMÉ

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Making a locality: the politics of land and football in North Kerala

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Labour migration, the Arabian Gulf, and the expanding territorial imagination in Malayalam cinema

Labour migration, the Arabian Gulf, and the expanding territorial imagination in Malayalam cinema

Fisherfolk and football: An ethnographic tale of loss in a changing climate

A people’s history of leisure studies: a historiography of four traditions of critical leisure studies

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