Sport and South Asian Diasporas

<p>This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity (post-) migration diaspora and transnationalism for global South Asian populations. The chapters provide a critical (re-) examination of the roles that sport plays <i>within </i>and <i>in relation to </i>South Asian groups in the diaspora and raises a series of pertinent questions regarding the multifarious relationships between sport and South Asianness. The chapters range across a wide variety of disciplines regions sports and identifications. They are in conversation with each other while showing the particularity of each diasporic context and relationship to sport. The book encompasses a number of global contexts from the homeland (India Pakistan Afghanistan) to the diaspora (Fiji Norway the US the UK) and addresses a broad range of sporting contexts including basketball boxing cricket cycling field hockey soccer and golf. The chapters combine a range of qualitative methods including ethnography auto-ethnography participant observation memoir interview and textual analysis (film television and print media). This collection comprises the latest cutting edge research in the field and will be essential reading for scholars and students both of sport and South Asian diasporas.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of <i>South Asian Popular Culture</i>.</p>