Francois Johannes Cleophas has assembled an engaging and compelling anthology in Critical Reflections: On Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire. Through twelve chapters, established, independent, and early career scholars attend to numerous ways of knowing the imperial project. It is a wide decolonial perspective on the marginalized and the oppressed in African, European, Pacific, Australian, and Asian contexts founded upon the idea that any “gains made” (or when people “set up for failure succeed” [91]) cannot be divorced from the “baggage of coloniality” (1). The centering of the marginal is at the core of the anthology. An important contribution here is how contributors work from the notion (articulated by Malcolm MacLean in his chapter) that “the Empire has many edges. Some are spatial, some are temporal, some are ontological, some are epistemological, but all are relational” (175). Although distinct, the resultant relationships are not unique to where and...
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April 01 2022
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire
Cleophas, Francois Johannes, ed.
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire
. Stellenbosch
: African Sun Media
, 2021
. Pp. 217
. Notes and illustrations. $19.00, pb. $15.00, eb.Journal of Sport History (2022) 49 (1): 73–74.
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Ornella Nzindukiyimana; Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire. Journal of Sport History 1 April 2022; 49 (1): 73–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.14
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