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International Journal of The History of Sport | 2015

Rethinking Postcolonial Worlds through Physical Activities

Stanislas Frenkiel; Thomas Riot; Nicolas Bancel

This special issue follows on from an international workshop entitled ‘Postcolonial Bodies’ which was held – in partnership with The International Journal of History of Sport – at the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Lausanne on 5–6 June 2014. Thanks to the contributions from numerous specialists in the historical and social developments of physical activities in a colonial and postcolonial context, the main objective was to explore the epistemic issues raised by our approach. Why such a theme? Today, input from postcolonial and globalization studies greatly extends the scope for including the subject of ‘sport’ in polysemous analysis of transnational cultures and diasporas. The porous nature of both spatial and political borders is just as present in the development of sporting migration from not only south to north – but also north to south – as they are in the postcolonial transformation of former colonies (Niko Besnier). Moreover, the exploration of such practices before, during, and after decolonization shows that the political split which occurred on independence should also be put into perspective and rethought by looking at the role played by cultural practices – and physical activities – ‘through the colonial mirror’ (Nicolas Bancel), which shows the strong continuities which existed from colonial times to the postcolonial period. The ambivalence of this process which mixes political freedom with forms of intermixing, even acculturation, of the former colonial power’s culture can be identified from the moment modern sports were introduced into the former colonies until the postcolonial development of sport and sporting migration. On the one hand, the analysis of the role played by sport in postcolonial practices and representations of multiculturalism, frontiers, and gender shows the ambivalent nature of their local and international footings. Whilst the standards transmitted by modern sports favoured an individuation of the body, it also opened the door to numerous assertions whether of identity or politics. From South Africa (John Nauright and Benedict Carton) to postcolonial Ireland (Mike Cronin), from an East-West antagonism to a North-South competition (Anais Bohuon), well-known sportsmen and women incarnate the essential dimensions of the sporting postcolonial scene: ethnic and national identities, definition and control of gender, cultural change and hybridation of practices. On that point, one approach of this collection is to be able to gain a better understanding of the practices studied, in vastly different contexts, revealing at the same time a process of reaffirmation of genealogical rules in modern sports – meritocratic values, discipline of the body, competitive habitus – which all contributed to reinforcing


Hermes | 2008

Génocide ou "guerre tribale"? Les mémoires controversées du génocide rwandais

Nicolas Bancel; Thomas Riot

Le genocide du Rwanda constitue l’un des evenements majeurs du xxe siecle : 800 000 Tutsis et Hutus de l’opposition au « gouvernement interimaire » rwandais ont ete massacres entre avril et juin 1994. Or, la reconnaissance de ce genocide ne va pas de soi. Cet article analyse les « contre-feux interpretatifs » mis en place selon trois axes : negation du genocide, euphemisation en « guerre tribale », these du « double genocide ». La presse dans cette guerre de memoire a ete un vecteur tout a fait essentiel.


International Journal of The History of Sport | 2015

A Roundabout Revolution: Rethinking the Decolonization of Rwanda by the Practices of the Catholic Scouting Movement, 1954–1964

Thomas Riot

Modelling itself on the organizational structure and the physical fitness culture of Catholic scouting, the xaveri movement in Rwanda developed within a climate which was highly susceptible to the development of deep racial and political divisions. Between 1954 and 1964, this Catholic youth organization was influential in the gestation of a Christian democratic culture which was one of the essential elements of the ideology behind the ‘Hutu revolution’. Covering the colonial to the postcolonial period and from the angle of the rise of the xaveri movement, this paper shows how the ‘Hutu revolution’ was a consequence of a liberation struggle from an imagined oppressor. This is in reference to colonial privileges attributed (until the end of the 1940s) to the Tutsi minority. However, and still from the perspective of the organization explored here, it seems that the model of the ‘civilised Tutsi’ targeted by the revolutionary Hutu movement was the essential referent of the more subconscious invention by republican leaders.


Cultures & conflits | 2016

« Danses macabres » : Une technologie culturelle du massacre des Tutsi au Rwanda

Thomas Riot; Nicolas Bancel; Herrade Boistelle


Materiales para la Historia del Deporte | 2018

Sports in postcolonial worlds

Nicolas Bancel; Thomas Riot; Stanislas Frenkiel


Politique africaine | 2017

Un art guerrier aux frontières des Grands Lacs. Aux racines dansées du Front patriotique rwandais

Thomas Riot; Nicolas Bancel; Paul Rutayisire


Politique africaine | 2017

Derrière le sport et les pratiques ludomotrices. Subjectivation et mobilisation par le corps en Afrique subsaharienne

Thomas Riot; Nicolas Bancel


Politique africaine | 2017

Behind sports and ludo-motor practices. Subjectivation and mobilization through the body in sub-Saharan Africa

Thomas Riot; Nicolas Bancel


Tiers-monde | 2016

Les politiques d’ itorero au Rwanda. Un dispositif éducatif et guerrier à l’épreuve de la reconstruction nationale

Thomas Riot; Herrade Boistelle; Nicolas Bancel


Tiers-monde | 2016

Itorero Policies in Rwanda

Thomas Riot; Herrade Boistelle; Nicolas Bancel

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