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I'll do a full review of the book when finished. It is a bunch of essays discussing colonialism and nationalism from a sporting point of view. By discussing certain sports like cricket, rugby, and soccer, the book focuses mainly on Australia and that region, India and Pakistan, Ireland, South Africa, with some discussion of China and pre-and post-Soviet Eastern European nations. I was a little apprehensive about reading this thinking it was going to be some anti-colonial, post-modern, Leftist analysis. I'm happy to say, so far it is not. It appears to be just the opposite: the authors of teh first few chapters I've read so far do a good job of "deconstructing" postmodernist and decontructionist theories. Derrida and the like seem to be a common target, and that's good because I abhor him based on what I learned of him in my philosophy class.
Did you have to read any of Derrida or Fouccault's work? I tried in my historiography class but kept getting splitting headaches trying to wrap my mind around what they were saying. I did find that a few beers make their thinking start to seem rational though.
There is this really good microbrewery/brewpub in Columbus, Georgia called The Cannon, whose sample pack of beer makes any philosophy easily understood. My classmates and I spent many evenings there in 2007 when I was attending ANCOC.
