Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies.

Notes on Contributors, Introduction: Sport and Postcolonialism, 1. The Last Night of the Poms: Australia as a Postcolonial Sporting Society?, 2. 'Black' Bodies 'White' Codes: Indigenous Footballers, Racism and the Australilan Football League's Racial and Religious Vilification Code, 3. Sport, Indigenous Australians and Invader Dreaming: A Critique, 4. Making Strange the Country and Making Strange the Countryside: Spatialized Clashes in the Affective Economies of Aotearoa/New Zealand during the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour, 5. Sport, Postcolonialism and Modern China: Some Preliminary Thoughts, 6. 'Paki Cheats!' Postcolonial Tensions in England-Pakistan Cricket7. 'When Gold is Fired It Shines': Sport, the Imagination and the Body in Colonial and Postcolonial India, 8. 'Theatre of Dreams': Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township, 9. The Postcolonial and the Level Playing-field in the 1998 World Cup, 10. Sport, Nationality and Postcolonialism in Ireland, 11. Football and FIFA in the Postcolonial World, Bibliography, Index