Cricket's Changing Ethos: Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL (Global Culture and Sport Series)
Cricket's Changing Ethos: Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL (Global Culture and Sport Series) by Jon Gemmell
English | 19 Jun. 2018 | ISBN: 3319763385 | 307 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.81 MB
English | 19 Jun. 2018 | ISBN: 3319763385 | 307 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.81 MB
This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The work examines the impact of globalisation and marketization on cricket and analyses the shift from an English dominance, on a sport that is ever-increasingly being shaped by Asian forces.