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

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"Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different international contexts. The contributions, all written by Indigenous scholars and those working directly in Indigenous/Native Studies units, provide unique studies of contemporary experiences of Indigenous sports participation. The papers investigate 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 development through sport with reference to sociological theory. " FRONT COVER NATIVE GAMES: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND SPORTS IN THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD COPYRIGHT PAGE CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION THE COVER THE CHAPTERS REFERENCES FOREWORD NO 'MUSEUM PIECE': ABORIGINAL GAMES AND CULTURAL CONTESTATION IN SUBARCTIC CANADA INTRODUCTION 'SURVIVALS' AND 'INTRUSIONS' THE SELF-REFERENTIAL SYMBOLIC INVENTORY OF OLYMPIC SPORTS DENE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE THE DENE GAMES GATHERING OUTLOOK FIVE KEY READINGS NOTE REFERENCES LASSOING AND REINDEER RACING VERSUS 'UNIVERSAL' SPORTS: VARIOUS ROUTES TO SÁMI IDENTITY THROUGH SPORTS INTRODUCTION FORMER RESEARCH CONTEXT OF THE SÁMI SPORT ORGANISATION IN NORWAY THEORY METHODS SÁMI SPORT ACTIVITIES AS BOUNDARIES A REINTERPRETATION OF ETHNICITY AND BOUNDARIES CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES 'A RESERVATION HERO IS A HERO FOREVER': BASKETBALL, IRONY, AND HUMOR IN THE NOVELS OF JAMES WELCH, SHERMAN ALEXIE, AND STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES NEOLIBERALISM AS NEOCOLONIALISM?: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MARKETISATION OF WAKA AMA IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND A MĀORI RENAISSANCE PLAYING NEAR THE BEEHIVE SPORTING CONJUNCTURALISM AND THE RE-EMERGENCE OF WAKA AMA NATIONALISING WAKA AMA NOTES FROM THE 2011 WAKA AMA NATIONALS CODA: NEOLIBERALISM, NEOCOLONIALISM AND THE FUTURE OF WAKA AMA FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES TOWARDS CULTURAL COMPETENCE: HOW INCORPORATING MĀORI VALUES COULD BENEFIT NEW ZEALAND SPORT INTRODUCTION THE CURRENT STATE OF NEW ZEALAND SPORT CULTURAL DESTRUCTIVENESS CULTURAL INCAPACITY CULTURAL BLINDNESS CULTURAL PRE-COMPETENCE CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND PROFICIENCY TOWARDS CULTURALLY COMPETENT SPORT CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES RESISTING CRITICAL ANALYSES: GATEKEEPING ISSUES WITH AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS 'SUBJECTS' INTRODUCTION REFLEXIVITY AND DISRUPTING 'GATE KEEPER' RACIAL HEGEMONY AND INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION IN SPORT THE POLITICS OF LOCATION BLINDED BY REVIEWS RESISTING 'GATE KEEPING' CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTE REFERENCES SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIA: THE NEW OR NOT SO NEW COLONISATION? INTRODUCTION SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: A POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUE ZAMBIAN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE RESEARCH CONTEXT UNDERTAKING SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FINDINGS CONCLUSIONS FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES THE LEGACY OF JACK JOHNSON ON ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA INTRODUCTION THE COLOURED PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD THE INSPIRATION OF JACK JOHNSON THE POLITICAL AGITATOR FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES INDIGENOUS RECONCILIATION GAMES: SELLING AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL AS THE NEW GAME TO THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA INTRODUCTION RESEARCH APPROACH NEW QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AN AUSTRALIAN IN SOUTH AFRICA SELLING AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN SOUTH AFRICA (1997–2008) AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN SOUTH AFRICA (THE AFL PERSPECTIVE) AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN SOUTH AFRICA (THE SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE) AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN AUSTRALIA (THE INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE) CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS REFERENCES YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RECREATION: EUROCENTRIC INFLUENCES AND ABORIGINAL SELF-DETERMINATION REVIEW OF LITERATURE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ANALYSIS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS FIVE KEY READINGS NOTE REFERENCES PARADIGM LOST: INDIGENOUS GAMES AND NEOLIBERALISM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT BACKGROUND WHAT CONSTITUTES THE INDIGENOUS PLAY AND GAME PHENOMENA? THE INDIGENOUS GAMES RESEARCH PROJECT RESULTS SOCIO-POLITICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF INDIGENOUS SPORT IN CONCLUSION: A PARADIGM LOST? FIVE KEY READINGS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REFERENCES HOPE AND STRENGTH(S) THROUGH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR CANADA'S ABORIGINAL PEOPLES THE WAKA'S JOURNEY IN/TO AOTEAROA COLONISATION AND THE DEMISE OF THE WAKA THE STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE PRACTICES OF HOPE THE CONTRIBUTION OF HOPE TO A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE CONCLUSION FIVE KEY READINGS NOTES REFERENCES UNCOMFORTABLE ICONS: UNEASINESS, EXPECTATIONS, AND AMERICAN INDIANS IN SPORT INDIANS MADE UNEASY UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS UNEASY ENACTMENTS ON EXPECTATIONS TOWARD A MIDDLE GROUND (?) CONCLUSIONS FIVE READINGS REFERENCES