This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of sportive nationalism,´ promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures.
By explaining how the realm of social reproduction involving households and communities is integral for play and sports, the book challenges the market-driven sports and development´ agenda while arguing for a sports commons.´ By foregrounding issues of justice and care, the book highlights how struggles for recognition, redistribution and representation are central to reimagining sports within an alternative notion of work, play and resistance.
