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Decolonizing sport  Cover Image Book Book

Decolonizing sport / edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips.

Summary:

Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands ; Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Kenya ; the authors demonstrate the two sharp edges of sport in the history of colonialism. Colonizers used sport, their own and Indigenous recreational activities they appropriated, as part of the process of dispossession of land and culture. Indigenous mascots and team names, hockey at residential schools, lacrosse and many other examples show the subjugating force of sport. Yet, Indigenous Peoples used sport, playing their own games and those of the colonizers, including hockey, horse racing and fishing, and subverting colonial sport rules as liberation from colonialism. This collection stands apart from recent publications in the area of sport with its focus on Indigenous Peoples, sport and decolonization, as well as in imagining a new way forward.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773636344 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xi, 276 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Halifax, NS : Fernwood Publishing, [2023].

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Racism in sports.
Sports > Social aspects.
Decolonization.
Indigenous peoples > Recreation.
Indigenous peoples > Games.
Sports > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Lansdowne Library GV 706.32 D43 2023 (Text) 26040003570112 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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