Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Sport and Postcolonialism

1 The Last Night of the Poms: Australia as a Postcolonial Sporting Society?

2 'Black' Bodies - 'White' Codes: Indigenous Footballers, Racism and the Australilan Football League's Racial and Religious Vilification Code

3 Sport, Indigenous Australians and Invader Dreaming: A Critique

4 Making Strange the Country and Making Strange the Countryside: Spatialized Clashes in the Affective Economies of Aotearoa/ New Zealand during the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour

5 Sport, Postcolonialism and Modern China: Some Preliminary Thoughts

6 'Paki Cheats!' Postcolonial Tensions in England - Pakistan Cricket

7 'When Gold is Fired It Shines': Sport, the Imagination and the Body in Colonial and Postcolonial India

8 'Theatre of Dreams': Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township

9 The Postcolonial and the Level Playing- field in the 1998 World Cup

10 Sport, Nationality and Postcolonialism in Ireland

11 Football and FIFA in the Postcolonial World

12 Bibliography