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Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
University of Michigan Press, 2021 Cloth: 978-0-472-07500-3 | eISBN: 978-0-472-12939-3 | Paper: 978-0-472-05500-5 Library of Congress Classification GV945.9.S6 Dewey Decimal Classification 796.3330968
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect, Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions and practices.Drawing inspiration from the observation that South Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial past into the country's contemporary political moment. See other books on: African Studies | Performance | Rugby | South Africa | Sports See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
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University of Michigan Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-0-472-07500-3
eISBN: 978-0-472-12939-3
Paper: 978-0-472-05500-5
Cloth: 978-0-472-07500-3
eISBN: 978-0-472-12939-3
Paper: 978-0-472-05500-5
In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put. In this respect, Animated by Uncertainty demonstrates that theories of sporting politics cannot afford to overlook the qualities of the sports themselves, and it provides a theoretical approach to illustrate how these qualities can be studied. The book also analyzes the ways that apartheid and colonialism inhere in South African institutions and practices.Drawing inspiration from the observation that South Africans could always abandon rugby if they chose to do so, Rubin highlights how the continuing significance of rugby as a form of performance brings traces of South Africa's apartheid and colonial past into the country's contemporary political moment.
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