Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World

289 Pages·2013·2.399 MB·English

by  Barry Judd (editor)

NATIVE GAMES: INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES AND SPORTS IN THE
POST-COLONIAL WORLD
RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY
OF SPORT
Series Editor: Kevin Young
Recent Volumes:
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Volume 3: The Global Olympics: Historical andSociological
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Volume 5: SocialandCulturalDiversityinaSportingWorld–
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Volume 6: Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical
Culture – Edited Kevin Young and Michael
Atkinson, 2012
RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT VOLUME 7
NATIVE GAMES:
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
AND SPORTS IN THE
POST-COLONIAL WORLD
EDITED BY
CHRIS HALLINAN
Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash University,
Australia; Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Toledo, USA
BARRY JUDD
School of Global Studies, RMIT University, Australia
United Kingdom – North America – Japan
India – Malaysia – China
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
INTRODUCTION
Chris Hallinan and Barry Judd ix
FOREWORD
Nga¯ mihi and Brendan Hokowhitu xv
NO ‘MUSEUM PIECE’: ABORIGINAL GAMES AND
CULTURAL CONTESTATION IN SUBARCTIC
CANADA
Michael K. Heine 1
LASSOING AND REINDEER RACING VERSUS
‘UNIVERSAL’ SPORTS: VARIOUS ROUTES TO SA´ MI
IDENTITY THROUGH SPORTS
Eivind A˚. Skille 21
‘A RESERVATION HERO IS A HERO FOREVER’:
BASKETBALL, IRONY, AND HUMOR IN THE
NOVELS OF JAMES WELCH, SHERMAN ALEXIE,
AND STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
Billy J. Stratton 43
NEOLIBERALISM AS NEOCOLONIALISM?:
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MARKETISATION OF
WAKA AMA IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND
Renee K. L. Wikaire and Joshua I. Newman 59
TOWARDS CULTURAL COMPETENCE: HOW
INCORPORATINGMA¯ORIVALUESCOULDBENEFIT
NEW ZEALAND SPORT
Holly Raima Hippolite and Toni Bruce 85
v
vi CONTENTS
RESISTING CRITICAL ANALYSES: GATEKEEPING
ISSUES WITH AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS
‘SUBJECTS’
Stella Coram and Chris Hallinan 107
SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIA: THE NEW
OR NOT SO NEW COLONISATION?
Ruth Jeanes, Jonathan Magee, Tess Kay and 127
Davies Banda
THE LEGACY OF JACK JOHNSON ON ABORIGINAL
AUSTRALIA
John Maynard 147
INDIGENOUS RECONCILIATION GAMES: SELLING
AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL AS THE NEW GAME TO
THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Barry Judd and Chris Hallinan 161
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RECREATION:
EUROCENTRIC INFLUENCES AND ABORIGINAL
SELF-DETERMINATION
Alana Rovito and Audrey R. Giles 183
PARADIGM LOST: INDIGENOUS GAMES AND
NEOLIBERALISM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN
CONTEXT
Cora Burnett 205
HOPE AND STRENGTH(S) THROUGH PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY FOR CANADA’S ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
Victoria Paraschak 229
UNCOMFORTABLE ICONS: UNEASINESS,
EXPECTATIONS, AND AMERICAN INDIANS
IN SPORT
C. Richard King 247
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Davies Banda Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, York
St John University, York, UK
Toni Bruce Faculty of Education, University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Cora Burnett Department of Sport and Movement
Studies, University of Johannesburg,
South Africa
Stella Coram Faculty of Medicine, Monash University,
Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Audrey R. Giles School of Human Kinetics, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Chris Hallinan Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash
University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Toledo,
Toledo, OH, USA
Michael K. Heine School of Kinesiology, University of
Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Holly Raima Hippolite Independent Scholar, New Zealand
Brendan Hokowhitu Faculty of Native Studies, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ruth Jeanes FacultyofEducation,MonashUniversity,
Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Barry Judd School of Global Studies, RMIT
University, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia
Tess Kay Centre for Sport, Health and Wellbeing,
Brunel University, London, UK
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viii LIST OFCONTRIBUTORS
C. Richard King Department of Critical Culture, Gender,
and Race Studies, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA, USA
Jonathan Magee School of Sport, Tourism and the
Outdoors, University of Central
Lancashire, Preston, UK
John Maynard The Wollotuka Institute, University of
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Joshua I. Newman Center for Physical Cultural Studies,
Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL, USA
Victoria Paraschak Department of Kinesiology, University of
Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
Alana Rovito Independent Scholar, Canada
Eivind A˚. Skille Department of Sports and Active
Lifestyle, Hedmark University College,
Elverum, Norway
Billy J. Stratton English Department, University of
Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Renee K. L. Wikaire Center for Physical Cultural Studies,
Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL, USA
INTRODUCTION
Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
brings together leading scholars and researchers into a volume that
collectively compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of
indigenous sports in different international contexts.
This volume is part of the Research in the Sociology of Sport series. We
undertook the volume with the following Synopsis: The organisation of
sport is an issue of critical social and political importance. It is also signi-
ficant to recognise the potential opportunities that research on indigenous
participation in general sport and indigenous organised sport offers to the
political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and the
protection of culture and identity. This volume constitutes an attempt to
compareandconceptualisethesociologicalsignificanceofindigenoussports
indifferentinternationalcontexts.Thecontributionsprovideuniquestudies
ofcontemporaryexperiencesofindigenoussportsparticipation.Ourproject
investigates current understandings of indigeneity found to circulate
throughout sports, sports organisations and indigenous communities by
(1) situating attitudes to racial and cultural difference within the broader
sociological processes of post-colonial indigenous worlds (2) interrogating
perceptions of indigenous identity with reference to contemporary theories
of identity drawn from indigenous studies and (3) providing insight to
increased indigenous participation, empowerment and personal develop-
ment through sport with reference to sociological theory.
There is no uniform structure to the chapters other than coherence and
logical sequence. We have welcomed all theoretical and methodological
approaches. We also undertook to draw as much as possible from contri-
butorsaroundtheworldand,whereverpossible,balanceourrepresentation
toemphasisetheinternationalinfluencesandvarietyofresearchcontentand
practises.
Inour ownresearch publications (e.g. seeHallinan&Judd,2012)and as
editorsofothervolumes,wehavevigorouslyresistedanyessentialistclaims
to defining indigenous, native, aboriginal, sports, games. In this volume we
also allow for the broadest possibilities within sociology and sociologically
based inquiry. This intent follows on from our recent edited volume
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