More than a game: globalization and the post‐Westernization of world cricket

Rumford, Chris

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0374.2007.00165.x

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“…This state of affairs is also arguably part of a process that Rumford (2007) labels "post-Westernization". This refers to a shift in the balance of power within cricket administration toward Asian nations, demonstrated by, for example, the International Cricket Council (ICC)'s relocation from London to Dubai, the introduction of the Indian Premier League and the growing significance of limited-overs cricket in relation to five-day Test matches.…”

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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket

Burdsey

2011

Sociology of Sport Journal

102

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This article investigates the presence and effects of racial microaggressions in English first-class cricket. Drawing on interview data with British Asian players, it not only highlights players' experiences of racism, but also identifies their tendency to downplay the repercussions of some of the forms that this prejudice takes. The analysis demonstrates that color-blind ideology is so entrenched in contemporary Western sport that its reproduction is not exclusively the preserve of white groups; it can also at times compel minority ethnic participants to endorse dominant claims that the effects of racism are overstated as well. As a consequence they are often pressured into denying or downplaying those forms of verbal discrimination which are articulated between team-mates and in a seemingly playful manner, dismissing incidents as merely "banter" or "jokes".Cet article porte sur la présence et les effets des micro-agressions raciales au cricket anglais. À partir des données d'entrevues réalisées auprès de joueurs anglo-asiatiques, il met en lumière leurs expériences de racisme et identifie leur tendance à amenuiser les répercussions de certaines des formes d'un tel préju-dice. L'analyse suggère que l'idéologie de l'absence de différence raciale est tellement enracinée dans le sport contemporain occidental que sa reproduction n'est pas exclusivement l'apanage des groupes blancs, elle peut aussi parfois contraindre les participants issus de minorités ethniques à entériner un discours dominant selon lequel les effets du racisme sont surévalués. En conséquence, ils sont souvent poussés à nier ou à minimiser ces formes de discrimination verbale qui sont articulées entre coéquipiers d'une façon apparemment ludique, rejetant les incidents comme étant de simples blagues.For many (although certainly not all) participants, fans, and media commentators, racism in professional sport in the UK is now perceived as largely a thing of the past. Any remnants are seen to be perpetrated by a decreasing number of residual bigots, who reside on the terraces rather than in the locker-rooms, management offices, and boardrooms. Indeed, it is frequently argued that racism at elite club and 261

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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket

Burdsey

2011

Sociology of Sport Journal

102

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“…We must take into account that there might be no unity in the East or no common 'Eastern' view similar to the increasing lack of unity within Western countries in the process of post-Westernization (Rumford, 2007). The intense and diverse regional consciousness in this case requires us to develop a more nuanced understanding in explicating the globalization of baseball and baseball within East Asia as well.…”

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Toward the post-Westernization of baseball? The national-regional-global nexus of Korean Major League Baseball fans during the 2006 World Baseball Classic

Cho

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This study investigates the multiplicity of South Korean Major League Baseball fans, with a focus on the tensions that they experience under the nationalistic aura surrounding MLB fandom while pursuing their individual hobby. For this purpose, it employs the idea of "post-Westernization" to interpret baseball as a global sport and examine its recent popularity in South Korea. By exploring the activities and voices of an online community among Korean fans, it demonstrates how national desires were complicated when they collided with a global strategy during the first World Baseball Classic in 2006. Analysis of Korean MLB fans during the WBC indicates both the possibilities and the limits of global baseball as a case of post-Westernization. The study shows that becoming an MLB fan in South Korea is at the intersection of national identity (nationalist fervor for MLB), regional rivalry (against Japan, the former colonizer) and global sensibilities (American sport fandom). Korean fans' responses can be summarized as the national-regional-global nexus in which they perceive the existence of regional and global hierarchies, but they also routinely contest their own and each others' perceptions. Finally, it suggests that fans' articulation of the national, regional, and global are far from being fixed or unidirectional: they are constantly under construction.

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“…The rise of the Indian economy over the past two decades, combined with the nation's population in excess of one billion and its elevation of cricket above all other sports (including hockey), has placed India at the centre of the sport (Gupta 2004;Rumford 2007). India's geo-political economic dominance of cricket has prompted Majumdar to conclude that it is 'close to a truly postcolonial sport ' (2007, 89).…”

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Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

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Gilmour

2009

Continuum

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As sport has circulated around the globe, its practice and expression have both replicated its established (and substantially Western-dominated) power formation, and to varying degrees challenged and modified it. The growing popularity of these sportsentertainment cultures reflects emergent media and leisure economies combining global aspirational cosmopolitanism with local cultural identities and histories. These multiple modes of cultural adaptation are evident in various Asian contexts in relation to the English Premier League (EPL) (and association football (soccer) in general), and hybridized local forms of global sport such as the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket and the J-League (Japanese professional soccer). This article examines, in reference to these cases, the ways in which global sport culture is constrained by its historical inheritance yet also making new, multi-faceted cultural histories. It argues that the trajectory of sport's global cultural development is not subject to a simple logic of adoption and imitation, but is created out of multiple, intersecting correspondencesand non-correspondences -between histories, sites and social formations. The cultural complexion of sport -not least in the vibrantly performative sphere of fandom -is undergoing profound, culturally adaptive change, and analytical frameworks foregrounding sporting cultural importation and pale imitation require a concomitant re-consideration and adaptation.

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More than a game: globalization and the post‐Westernization of world cricket

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Racial Microaggressions, Color-Blind Ideology and the Mitigation of Racism in English Men’s First-Class Cricket

Toward the post-Westernization of baseball? The national-regional-global nexus of Korean Major League Baseball fans during the 2006 World Baseball Classic

Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

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