1st Edition

Managing Expectations and Policy Responses to Racism in Sport Codes Combined

Edited By Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford, Sean Gorman Copyright 2016
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This volume presents research on policy responses to racism in sporting codes, predominantly Australian Rules football, in a global context. While the three guest editors are based in Australia, and their work pertains to the uniquely domestic game of Australian Rules football, the outcomes, research vectors and key issues from this research are part of a much larger on-going international... Read more

1. Editorial: Codes combined  Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford and Sean Gorman

2. Codes Combined: managing expectations and policy responses to racism in sport  Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford and Sean Gorman

3. Discrimination cases in grass-roots sport: comparing Australian and English experiences  Paul Oliver and Jim Lusted

4. To play Papunya: the problematic interface between a remote Aboriginal community and the organization of Australian Football in Central Australia  Barry Judd and Tim Butcher

5. Disciplinary provisions for hate speech in football: comparative perspectives  Simon Gardiner

6. Frank and Bhupinder: the odd couple of Indian cricket  Megan Ponsford

7. When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League  Daniel Burdsey and Sean Gorman

8. Sectarianism, anti-sectarianism and Scottish football  Joseph M. Bradley

9. Where are all the Koorie football players? The AFL and the invisible presence of Indigenous Victorians  Jess Coyle

10. Safeguarding in sport  Anthony Hedges

Biography

Keir Reeves is a professor of Australian History and Director of the Collaborative Research Centre for Australian History at Federation University Australia.

Sean Gorman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Curtin University who specialises in Indigenous Studies.

Megan Ponsford is an historian whose doctoral research at Federation University Australia focuses on cricketing cross-cultural encounters between Australia and the sub-continent.