Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics

Aarti Ratna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Solent University, UK. Ratna is the co-editor of Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic ‘Other' Girls and Women (2017).Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College, USA. Rand is the author of Barbie’s Queer Accessories (1995), The Ellis Island Snow Globe (2005), Red Nails, Black Skates (2012), and The Small Book of Hip Checks (2021).Daniel Burdsey is Reader in the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton, UK. Burdsey is the author of British Asians and Football: Culture, Identity, Exclusion (2007), Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge (2016), and Racism and English Football: For Club and Country (2020). Stanley Thangaraj is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies at the City College of New York, USA. Thangaraj is the author of Desi Hoop Dreams (2015) and co-editor of Asian American Sporting Cultures (2016).

• Foreword: The white open Lala Zannell1. Leisure and the racing of national populism Stanley Thangaraj, Aarti Ratna, Daniel Burdsey and Erica Rand2. Queer inclusion precludes (Black) queer disruption: media analysis of the Black lives matter Toronto sit-in during Toronto Pride 2016Ali Greey3. Heritage as hate: racism and sporting traditions Gabby M.H. Yearwood4. In the garden of domestic dystopia: racial delirium and playful interferenceBrian E. Kumm and Corey W. Johnson5. Enacting and resisting the politics of belonging through leisure. The debate about gender-segregated swimming sessions targeting Muslim women in DenmarkVerena Lenneis and Sine Agergaard6. Making a locality: the politics of land and football in North KeralaVeena Mani and Mathangi Krishnamurthy7. Anti-colonial critiques of sport mega-eventsHeather Sykes and Manal Hamzeh 8. Public leisure space and community-based actionRodrigo Tramutolo Navarro, Daniella Tschöke Santana and Simone RechiaAfterword: A commitment to the task at handUrooj Shahzadi