1st Edition

Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport

Edited By Christopher J. Hallinan, Barry Judd Copyright 2014
138 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports. Historically, Australian sports have provided a rare and important social context in which Indigenous Australians could engage with and participate in non-Indigenous society. Today, Indigenous Australian people in sports continue to provide important points of... Read more

1. Indigenous studies and race relations in Australian sports  2. Aborigines, sport and suicide  3. Indigeneity and the performance of corporeal masculinities in the Australian Football League  4. Bridging the Indigenous health divide: football and men engaging  5. Warlpiri warriors: Australian Rules football in Central Australia  6. Duelling paradigms: Australian Aborigines, marn-grook and football histories  7. Contested space – the Australian Aboriginal sporting arena  8. A modern day Corroboree – the New South Wales Annual Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout Carnival  9. Voices from the boundary line: the Australian Football League’s Indigenous Team of the Century  10. The question of indigenous origins and the unlevel playing field: outside the boundary of the dominant paradigm

Biography

Christopher J. Hallinan is a Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Indigenous Centre at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are within the politics of ethnic, racial and national identities, and ethnographic research methods.

Barry Judd is Associate Professor with School of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Barry is a descendent of the Pitjantjatjara people of north west South Australia and British immigrants who settled on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s.