Symbols of unity: Anglo‐Australian cricketers, 1877–1900

Cashman, Richard

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“…Such efforts often yielded desired results, as is evident from Lord Harris' claim in 1921 that 'cricket had done more to consolidate the empire than any other influence'. 29 The imperial agenda was similarly vindicated when Ranji asserted that cricket was the most powerful link that had held the empire together. 30 He, as Derek Birley affirms, viewed the empire as the world's greatest cricket team.…”

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The Vernacular in Sports History

Majumdar¹

2003

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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The Vernacular in Sports History

Majumdar¹

2003

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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“…The result of this 'cricket-education-religion triad' (Sandiford, 1998: 18) was that cricket was diffused wherever the graduates of England's elite schools and universities travelled while performing their duties in the British Empire (Kaufman and Patterson, 2005;Perkin, 1992). The export of imperial sports was simultaneously 'moral metaphor, political symbol and cultural bond' (Mangan, 1992: 1) and 'as the most English of English games, cricket was thought to express imperial ideas and the concept of cultural bond better than any other sport' (Cashman, 1992). As cricket spread imperially throughout the British colonies and dominions of Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, India and South Africa, public interest in international matches, known as Test matches, grew.…”

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Domination in Organizational Fields: It’s Just Not Cricket

Wright

2009

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This article demonstrates how deep engagement with Bourdieu’s theory of the field enriches scholarly understanding of institutional processes. A historical narrative of institutional formation and change in firstclass County cricket in England as a field of restricted cultural production is presented. The narrative illustrates how focusing attention on the position of agents within the field, the relations of production within the field, and the social context, which includes social class, provides a path for analysis of institutional processes which is dynamic, multi-level and nuanced. Bourdieu’s conception of fields as a struggle for capital between agents strategizing to improve field position illuminates the importance of social class to institutional processes, an effect that has been under reported by the most popular approaches to institutionalization in the extant literature.

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“…It's a shame only conservatives feel comfortable talking about it. (Berg,The Sunday Age,12/08/12) Indeed, whereas by the end of the nineteenth-century Australian nationalism was able to challenge the pro-British tenets of imperial identity, encouraging a distinct Australian national identity via a range of cultural attributes arising from art, literature and sporting prowess (Cashman, 1992;McGregor, 2006), 'such cultural fragments did not add up to the rich and complex heritage essential for a people to imagine itself as a community of destiny' (McGregor, 2006: 502).…”

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Reflexivity or orientation? Collective memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national press

Black

2018

Memory Studies

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With regard to the notion of 'national reflexivity', an important part of Beck's cosmopolitan outlook, this article examines how, and, in what ways, collective memories of empire were reflexively used in Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national newspaper coverage of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games. In contrast to Beck, it is argued that examples of national reflexivity were closely tied to the history of the nation-state, with collective memories of the former British Empire used to debate, critique and appraise 'the nation'. These memories were discursively used to 'orientate' each nation's postcolonial emergence, suggesting that examples of national reflexivity, within the press' coverage, remained closely tied to the 'historical fetishes' enveloped in each nations' imperial past(s). This implies that the 'national outlook' does not objectively overlook, uncritically absorb or reflexively acknowledge differences with 'the other', but instead, negotiates a historically grounded 3 and selective appraisal of the past that reveals a contingent and, at times, ambivalent, interplay with 'the global'.

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Symbols of unity: Anglo‐Australian cricketers, 1877–1900

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The Vernacular in Sports History

The Vernacular in Sports History

Domination in Organizational Fields: It’s Just Not Cricket

Reflexivity or orientation? Collective memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national press

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