The race to transform: sport in post-apartheid South Africa

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Title:	The race to transform: sport in post-apartheid South Africa
Editor:	Desai, Ashwin
Year:	2010
Pages:	271
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Cape Town
Publisher:	HSRC Press
ISBN:	0796923191; 9780796923196
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	sport policy athletics cricket football rugby
Abstract:	This book emerges from a wide-ranging research project on racial re-dress in postapartheid South Africa. One of the central questions asked in the volume is whether the current changes in South African sport are reinforcing a form of class apartheid in sports, and whether the present trajectory will deepen inequalities rather than progressively mitigate them. Contributions: Introduction: Long run to freedom (Ashwin Desai); Creepy crawlies, portapools and the dam(n)s of swimming transformation (Ashwin Desai and Ahmed Veriava); Inside 'the House of Pain': a case study of the Jaguars Rugby Club (Ashwin Desai and Zayn Nabbi); 'Transformation' from above: the upside-down state of contemporary South African soccer (Dale T. McKinley); Women's bodies and the world of football in South Africa (Prishani Naidoo and Zanele Muholi); Jumping over the hurdles: a political analysis of transformation measures in South African athletics (Justin van der Merwe); Beyond the nation? Colour and class in South African cricket (Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed); Between black and white: a case study of the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union (Goolam Vahed, Vishnu Padayachee and Ashwin Desai). [ASC Leiden abstract]