Resistance through Sport:

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  • スポーツを通じた抵抗
  • スポーツを通じた抵抗 : C.L.R. ジェームズとカルチュラル・スタディーズの抵抗理論
  • スポーツ オ ツウジタ テイコウ : C.L.R. ジェームズ ト カルチュラル ・ スタディーズ ノ テイコウ リロン
  • ―C.L.R.ジェームズとカルチュラル・スタディーズの抵抗理論―
  • C.L.R. James, Resistance Theory and Cultural Studies

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<p>　This essay is concerned with finding ways of “resistance through sport” under the conditions that we cannot completely escape the dominant effects of social powers. For this purpose, this essay firstly refers to C.L.R James’s brilliant work, Beyond the Boundary, in which James analyzes the way in which cricket, a product of the British Empire, came to be an important site for anti-colonial struggle for black citizens. For James, sport was a culture that contained the moments in which people, especially black people, could imagine an alternative collectivity beyond national boundaries and cultural genres through connecting to other contexts or memories. This essay next describes how James’s argument on sport influenced the Birmingham School of cultural studies. Tracing the arguments of such scholars as Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Paul Willis, it examines the theories of cultural resistance in recent works of cultural studies of sport. One of the seminal among them is Ben Carrington’s argument of “Sporting Black-Atlantic,” which he poses as a complex cultural and political space beyond national boundaries through the sporting experiences of black athletes that produces solidarity of black diasporas. This kind of counter public sphere is, ironically however, a product of modern capitalism itself which has had an exploitative effect on black people. Considering these arguments, this essay finally proposes the perspective to capture the resisting moments in which alternative collectivity and alternative public sphere connected to sport culture could emerge through symbolic creativity of the people in the midst of, and through the circuit of, the modern imperialism or capitalism(?).</p>

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