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Sports and The Global South

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This chapter frames the main argument in the book in terms of expanding sports markets into the urban centres of the Global South, highlighting contradictions related to notions of play and well-being. Historically, the struggles to transform work and play in the Global South, relates to not only worker struggles but also the broad anti-colonial movement towards self-determination and cultural self-realisation. This book argues for reimagining the pleasure of sports in terms of transforming work (the realm of production) as well as play (social reproduction). This book is framed within a cultural political economy perspective with a critical realist philosophical approach. Regaining sports as a “carnival of the commons” involves prioritising the social provisioning values of sports, rather commercial values, in order to democratise both work and play.

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Biyanwila, S.J. (2018). Introduction. In: Sports and The Global South. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68502-1_1

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