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Dear SPORT-CULTURE-SOCIETY Subscribers, We hope the following titles may be of interest. http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/following-the-ball [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Following the Ball The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 Todd Cleveland With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players’ transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire. Ohio University Press | Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies | November 2017 | 280pp | 9780896803145 | Paperback | £26.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL1117FCB** https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/football-and-colonialism [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Football and Colonialism Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique Nuno Domingos Foreward by Harry G. West In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what Craveirinha termed “malice”—or cunning—to negotiate their places in the colonial state. “These manifestations demand a vast study,” Craveirinha wrote, “which would lead to a greater knowledge of the black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and instructive ethnography.” In Football and Colonialism, Nuno Domingos accomplishes that study. Ambitious and meticulously researched, the work draws upon an array of primary sources, including newspapers, national archives, poetry and songs, and interviews with former footballers. Domingos shows how local performances and popular culture practices became sites of an embodied history of Mozambique. The work will break new ground for scholars of African history and politics, urban studies, popular culture, and gendered forms of domination and resistance. *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the Americas Ohio University Press | New African Histories | August 2017 | 342pp | 9780821422625 | Paperback | £28.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL1117FCB** [cid:BFAEDE48-4827-454B-8D10-8612FA1E8339] Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd> or Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Combined-Academic-Publishers/196269570500> Blog: bookscombined.com<https://bookscombined.com>