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Title Statement | Decolonizing sport / edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips. |
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Additional Contributors | Field, Russell |
Forsyth, Janice | |
O'Bonsawin, Christine | |
Phillips, Murray G.(Murray George) | |
Publication | Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | xi, 276 pages |
ISBN | 9781773636344 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07226176 |
General Notes | Includes index. |
Summary | "The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization?"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Decolonization |
Indigenous peoples--Games | |
Indigenous peoples--Recreation | |
Inuit--Games | |
Inuit--Recreation | |
Racism in sports | |
Sports--History | |
Sports--Social aspects |