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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)
Description: Today we are joined by Dr. Samir Chopra, Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey (Temple University Press, 2021). In our conversation, we discussed how Chopra became an Indian cricket fan, the unique role that cricket plays in immigrant South Asian communities in Australia and the United States, the scholarly legacy of CLR James Beyond a Boundary, and the future of global cricket since the 1980s.In The Evolution of a Cricket Fan, Chopra mixes autobiography, ethnog...