In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy... more In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy, the role of sport in society, and the globalization/localization of sports policies. In particular, it maps out local, national and international responses within sport to racism, and initiatives within sport to tackle racism in and through sport. The unifying concept through the chapters is a political and intellectual commitment to a critically realist position on racism. This collection, including an international line-up of contributors, assesses anti-racism ...
Despite'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and ... more Despite'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and emotions, of brave deeds against odds seemingly insuperable', sport is mixed with'mean and shameful acts of pure skullduggery', villainy, cowardice, depravity, rapaciousness and malice. Thus wrote celebrated American novelist Paul Gallico on the eve of the Second World War (Gallico 1938 [1988]: 9-10). An acute enough observation about society in general, his farewell to sports writing also captures the'clashing colors' in Australian sport. In this' land ...
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study investigates opportunities and challenges associated with the use of sport -in this ca... more This study investigates opportunities and challenges associated with the use of sport -in this case cricket -as a community development tool in Samoa. This Pacific Island nation, like others in the region, has been the focus of various development programs in the post-colonial era, with developed economy neighbours like Australia and New Zealand providing aid funding. Some of these programs have involved sport as a development tool, underpinned either by funding from the national government, foreign aid agencies, or a combination of both. This paper aims to explore the use of sport as a community engagement tool by focusing on a cricket-fordevelopment (CFD) program in Samoa. The paper examines the activities of relevant sport and government organisations, and draws upon interviews with local stakeholders involved in the CFD process in Samoa. In short, the prime purpose of this paper is to identify and interpret -from the perspective of locals -what the CFD program has brought to Samoan communities thus far. This is important because, to date, there has been an absence of qualitative inquiry into the efficacy of sport-for-development programs in Samoa, and very limited research in a Pacific Islands context.
Abstract This article describes how, during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, ... more Abstract This article describes how, during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, ideas about sporting manhood were shaped fundamentally by the imperial context in which most games were invented and then exported to the colonies. Environmental and biological factors were both claimed to determine the development of Anglo-Saxons in the Antipodes, and, since Anglo-Australian sporting competition was dominated by men, the comparative state of the Australian male. The single location innovation of note was ...
In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy... more In examining race in sport, this book is an essential contribution to debates about sports policy, the role of sport in society, and the globalization/localization of sports policies. In particular, it maps out local, national and international responses within sport to racism, and initiatives within sport to tackle racism in and through sport. The unifying concept through the chapters is a political and intellectual commitment to a critically realist position on racism. This collection, including an international line-up of contributors, assesses anti-racism ...
Despite'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and ... more Despite'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and emotions, of brave deeds against odds seemingly insuperable', sport is mixed with'mean and shameful acts of pure skullduggery', villainy, cowardice, depravity, rapaciousness and malice. Thus wrote celebrated American novelist Paul Gallico on the eve of the Second World War (Gallico 1938 [1988]: 9-10). An acute enough observation about society in general, his farewell to sports writing also captures the'clashing colors' in Australian sport. In this' land ...
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study investigates opportunities and challenges associated with the use of sport -in this ca... more This study investigates opportunities and challenges associated with the use of sport -in this case cricket -as a community development tool in Samoa. This Pacific Island nation, like others in the region, has been the focus of various development programs in the post-colonial era, with developed economy neighbours like Australia and New Zealand providing aid funding. Some of these programs have involved sport as a development tool, underpinned either by funding from the national government, foreign aid agencies, or a combination of both. This paper aims to explore the use of sport as a community engagement tool by focusing on a cricket-fordevelopment (CFD) program in Samoa. The paper examines the activities of relevant sport and government organisations, and draws upon interviews with local stakeholders involved in the CFD process in Samoa. In short, the prime purpose of this paper is to identify and interpret -from the perspective of locals -what the CFD program has brought to Samoan communities thus far. This is important because, to date, there has been an absence of qualitative inquiry into the efficacy of sport-for-development programs in Samoa, and very limited research in a Pacific Islands context.
Abstract This article describes how, during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, ... more Abstract This article describes how, during the formative years of organized sport in Australia, ideas about sporting manhood were shaped fundamentally by the imperial context in which most games were invented and then exported to the colonies. Environmental and biological factors were both claimed to determine the development of Anglo-Saxons in the Antipodes, and, since Anglo-Australian sporting competition was dominated by men, the comparative state of the Australian male. The single location innovation of note was ...
Pre-publication version of the Introduction to the International Review for the Sociology of Spor... more Pre-publication version of the Introduction to the International Review for the Sociology of Sport Special issue: Interrogating boundaries of 'race', ethnicity and identity.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2019
Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athlete... more Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia
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