A secret history of volleyball

Mobley, Alexandra

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Description

Title

A secret history of volleyball

Author(s)

Mobley, Alexandra

Issue Date

2013-08-22T16:55:06Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Cole, Cheryl L.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Cole, Cheryl L.

Committee Member(s)

• Denzin, Norman K.
• Treichler, Paula A.
• Espiritu, Augusto F.

Department of Study

Inst of Communications Rsch

Discipline

Communications

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• volleyball
• Philippines
• postcolonial
• Young Men's Christian Association
• queer
• autoethnography

Abstract

"A ""secret history"" considers the global authorship of volleyball beyond the standard history of a single inventor and obliterates assumptions of the inferior creativity of colonized, Asian, queer, and/or indigenous subjects. Volleyball is both ubiquitous and yet mostly relegated to mere footnotes in the histories of American team sport, a reflection of its status as an ""insurgent"" game hiding in plain sight. This dissertation examines the interfaces among colonizing evangelical sporting traditions of the Young Men’s Christian Association, military doctrine, and indigenous creative resistances that helped to drive volleyball's evolution beyond purely masculinist narratives of team sport."

Graduation Semester

2013-08

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Copyright 2013 Alex M. Mobley

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