Cricket in Pakistan: Nation, Identity and Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-070884-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

This book seeks to provide unique insights into the social, cultural, and political changes that Pakistan has experienced since its birth in 1947. These changes are examined through an analysis of Pakistan cricket and its changing contours with the premise that Pakistan cricket (including the cricketers, administrators, fans, and the nature of Pakistan cricket) is a reflection of society itself and that issues such as match-fixing, religiosity, and cricketing innovation are indicative of wider societal trends in politics, religion, and corruption. Simultaneously, cricket has also affected politics, economics, and society in Pakistan. The book examines how profoundly cricket in Pakistan influences culture, politics, and society and how it is in turn influenced by the wider social and political context within which it is embedded. An analysis of cricket, therefore, allows a unique insight into wider societal trends in politics and international relations, race, religion, corruption, cultural change, and globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

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- Introduction

- Cricket in Pakistan: Nation, Identity, and Politics

- Two-way ReflectionsCricket in Society, Society in Cricket

- National Politics and the Appropriation of Cricket

- Local and GlobalMatch-Fixing, Corruption, and Redemption

- Global Relations: Cricket in a Colonial and Post-Colonial Context

- Sibling Rivalry

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- 1: The Nature of Pakistan Cricket

- The Diffusion of Cricket to the Subcontinent

- The Spread of Cricket in Pakistan

- The First Expansion

- The Culturally Liberal 1960s and 1970s

- Socio-Political Transformation in Zias Tenure

- Impact of the Socio-Political Changes on the Team

- Models of Inconsistency

- Leadership

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- 2: Politics, Organization, and Leadership

- An Emerging Country

- Essential Patronage: The Birth of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan

- Patronage and the Appropriation of Cricket

- Leadership and Centralization

- Maladaptive Leadership

- Consequences for the Organization

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- 3: Corruption, Match-Fixing, and Redemption

- Its Not Cricket: The Ethics of Cricket

- The Beginnings of Match-Fixing

- Commercialization

- Match-Fixing in Pakistan

- Fame, Greed, Celebrity

- Insecurity, Inequality, Envy

- Leadership and Grooming

- Transformational Leadership: The Case of Imran Khan

- Flawed Leadership: The Case of Salman Butt

- A Corrupt Society

- Organizational Corruption

- Match-Fixing, Tablighi Jamaat, and Redemption

- Why the Spike in Religiosity?

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- 4: Pakistan in the Global Cricketing Order: England and the Colonial Legacy

- The Colonial Legacy

- Umpire vs. Empire

- Pak off the Cheats

- Improving Relations

- Peaks and Troughs

- Woolmergate

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- 5: Pakistan in the Global Cricketing Order South Asia I

- Lala Amarnath of Lahore and India

- Early Relations

- Against the Grain

- The Question of Indian Muslims and the Rise of Hindutva

- Cautious Resumption

- Rising Nationalism

- A False Spring: The 1999 Pakistan Tour to India

- Cricket: A Bridge of Peace?

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- 6: Pakistan in the Global Cricketing Order South Asia II

- Isolation in South Asia

- The Point of No Return

- Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan

- The Future of South Asian Relations

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- 7: ConclusionThe Future

- A Mirror to Society

- Pakistans Rehabilitation

- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings

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- Epilogue: Cricket in the Time of Covid

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS. Ali Khan has an MPhil and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England. Prior to joining LUMS, Ali Khan spent over ten years working for the World Bank and the International Labour Organization.