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Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport
Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.
Cover -- Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport -- RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT -- TOWARDS A PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT: SEEKING NEW HORIZONS -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Pacific Sport Research: Seeking New Horizons -- Pacific Sport Research: Scope and Trajectory to Date -- Seeking New Horizons: The Chapters -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part 1. Indigeneity and Sport -- 1. Solomon Islands Swimming: Racial Hierarchies and the Marginalisation of Pacific Swimming Cultures -- Abstract -- Introduction
Bringing Solomons Swimming to Sydney -- Reflecting Solomons Precedents -- Forgetting Solomons Swimming -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Five Key Readings -- References -- 2. Looking Back and Beyond: Exploring the Past and Present of Cricket and Kirikiti in Oceania -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Bats and Balls in Oceania's Past and Present -- Theorising Sporting Change in Oceania -- Understanding Cricket's Transculturalisation in Oceania -- Contextualising and Historicising Kirikiti and Trobriand Cricket -- Re-Situating Indigenised Cricket in the Oceanic Present -- Women and Cricket in Oceania
Situating Women Cricketers in Oceania's 'Everyday' Past -- Women Contesting, Resisting and Protesting on the Cricket Pitch -- Conclusion -- Five Key Readings -- References -- 3. Tivaevae as a Conceptual Model for Integrating Traditional Sports and Games Into Formal Education in the Pacific: The Ca ... -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Traditional Sports and Games in the Pacific -- Cultural Values and Indigenous Peoples' Ways of Knowing -- TSGs and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy -- Tivaevae as a Conceptual Framework for Integrating TSG Into the Education System
Application of the Tivaevae Model to the Cook Islands Curriculum of Physical Education and Sport -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Five Key Readings -- References -- 4. Paddling Our Sea of Islands: Fiji Outrigger Canoe Racing (Va'a) as Living Culture -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Method and Research Process -- Fiji and Sport: A Brief Overview -- Outrigger Canoe Racing in Fiji: The Story so Far -- Inclusivity of Paddling -- Exclusivity of Paddling -- Oceanic Embeddedness: Paddling as Living Culture -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Five Key Readings -- References
Part 2. Gender, Ethnicity and Sport -- 5. Indo-Fijian Women and Girls' Sporting Experiences: Disrupting Cultural Hegemony -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methods -- One-Act Play -- Research Context -- Girls and Bruises Aren't a Pretty Sight: A Bus Stop Story of Paradoxical Indo-Fijian Bodies -- Oppression of Indo-Fijian Women's Sporting Agency Based on Gender and Age -- Entangled Sporting Oppressions: Race, Class and Geographical Displacement -- Repressive PE and Sporting Experiences in High School -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Five Key Readings -- References
6. Untangling Complexity: The Ethnic, Gender and Class Dimensions in Fijian Sport and Society
Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2024