Why Rewriting the Past of the World Sports from the Perspective of Global South

As an intellectual branch within the Global South paradigm, 'Global South Sports Historiography' takes as its epistemological object the 'global sports development divide' forged by modern capitalist expansion. Employing dialectical relationality as methodology and Southern epistemic autonomy as standpoint, this analytical framework synthesizes cutting-edge paradigms from international humanities and social sciences to interrogate the historical processes and historiographical particularities of 'Global South sports' as a substantive historical phenomenon. The imperative for rewriting global sports history through a Global South lens stems from two fundamental realities: First, 'Global South sports (history)' constitutes a direct response to the collective geopolitical emergence of the Global South in international relations. Second, this conceptualization draws theoretical sustenance from both 'Southern Theory' and reflexive trends in 21st-century 'Global Historiography', which provide its epistemological foundations and intellectual inspiration. The Asian continent, as an integral component of the Global South, offers particularly fertile ground for such scholarly intervention. Narrating Asian sporting history and culture through this Global Southern perspective promises to recover localized bodily practices and vernacular physical cultures that exist beyond the hegemonic 'Northern episteme' of dominant global sports discourse.