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  title info:
    title: Decolonizing sport
  name:
    name part: Forsyth, Janice
    name part: (Researcher of Indigenous sports)
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: O'Bonsawin, Christine
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Field, Russell
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Phillips, Murray G. (Murray George)
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Games
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "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 …
  table of contents: Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
  note: edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips.
  note: Issued also in electronic formats.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-262) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Racism in sports
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Decolonization
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Recreation
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Games
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: First Nations
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous athletes
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Racisme dans les sports
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Décolonisation
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Decolonization
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
  subject:
    topic: Racism in sports
  subject:
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: GV706.32 .D43 2023
  classification: 796.089
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Decolonizing sport
    origin info:
      publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2023
    identifier: (OCoLC)1379802780
  identifier: 9781773636344
  identifier: 1773636340
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 230523
    record change date: 20250318215950.9
    record identifier: in00005464823
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng