ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the creation of branded, gated communities in major metropolitan regions of India that utilize iconic elements of England’s Marylebone Cricket Club and Lord’s Cricket Ground. Through a postcolonial analysis, it explores the ‘imagineering’ at work in such efforts, particularly the purifying of nature through urban, sport-related development. It concludes that studying and researching sport and environmental sustainability on an international scale calls for an approach that recognizes the ‘denied dependencies’ between sustainability, development, and other logics of exclusion and domination.
