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August 19, 2026International Review for the Sociology of SportOpen Access

Bodies out of place? A reflexive autoethnographic account of women's cricket spectatorship in India

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RBRohini Balram

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Autoethnographic study reveals gendered surveillance and infrastructural barriers among female cricket spectators in India, challenging assumptions that audience growth equates to gender equity.

Key Points

  • Examine how gender, affect, and physical stadium infrastructure shape the experiences of female spectators at elite women's cricket matches in India.
  • Conducted a reflexive autoethnography during an ICC Women's World Cup match at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai in October 2025.
  • Analyzed field observations, interactions across shared seating areas, and spatial dynamics through postcolonial feminist theory and Nirmal Puwar's 'bodies out of place' framework.
  • Female spectators experienced simultaneous heightened visibility and ongoing marginalisation through gendered surveillance, sexualisation, and masculinised stadium infrastructure.
  • Women negotiated and contested stadium power dynamics through vocal participation, collective presence, and shared affective atmospheres.

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Rohini Balram (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85638803308d306e2d6b09https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902261474445
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