Sport In Australian National Identity

Author : Tony Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317987667
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport in Australian National Identity written by Tony Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But it is also influenced by the reasons that people have for encouraging particular images – and by the conflicts between differing views of national identity, and of sport. Buffeted by these elements, both the extent of Australian sports madness and the level of stirring have varied considerably over time. While many refer to long-lasting factors, such as the amount of sunshine, this book argues that the ebb and flow of sporting images are strongly linked to current views of national identity. Starting from Archer’s win in the first Melbourne Cup in 1861, it traces the importance of trade unions in the formation of Australian Rules, the success of a small rural town in holding one of the world’s foremost running races, and the win-from-behind of a fat arsed wombat knocking off the official mascots of Sydney 2000. This book was based on a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415262965
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport written by Eric Dunning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of texts providing a useful resource for students in the field of sports studies. Subject headings include approaches to the study of sport, the development and structure of modern sport, sport and power relations, and major issues in contemporary sport.

Author : Jed Donoghue
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178756505X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Australian National Identity written by Jed Donoghue and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence of historical and popular figures on the way Australians see themselves in the 21st century. Investigating whether colonial figures such as convicts and bushrangers still influence contemporary Australian identity, and how the influence of sports figures, politicians and scientists manifests itself.

Author : Jared van Duinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137527781
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British World and an Australian National Identity written by Jared van Duinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the ‘British World’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national identity. Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture. Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of an Australian national identity.

Author : Adrian Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415283007
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and National Identity in the Post-war World written by Adrian Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad range of international case studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped sport.

Author : Dilwyn Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134456921
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World written by Dilwyn Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: · English football and British decline · Englishness and sport · Ethnicity and nationalism in Scotland · Social change and national pride in Wales · Irish international football and Irishness · Sport and identity in South Africa · Cricket and identity crisis in the Caribbean · Baseball, exceptionalism and American Sport · Popular mythology surrounding the sporting rivalry between New Zealand and Australia Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World presents a wealth of original research into contemporary social history and provides illuminating material for historians and sociologists alike.

Author : Christopher J. Hallinan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134904495
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport written by Christopher J. Hallinan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reference around which national public dialogue about racial and cultural relations in Australia takes place. Yet much media coverage surrounding these issues and almost all academic interest concerning Indigenous people and Australian sports is constructed from non-Indigenous perspectives. With a few notable exceptions, the racial and cultural implications of Australian sports as viewed from an Indigenous Australian Studies perspective remains understudied. The media coverage and academic discussion of Indigenous people and Australian sports is largely constructed within the context of Anglo-Australian nationalist discourse, and becomes most emphasised when reporting on aspects of ‘racial and cultural’ explanations of Indigenous sporting excellence and failures associated anomalous behaviour. This book investigates the many ways that Indigenous Australians have engaged with Australian sports and the racial and cultural readings that have been associated with these engagements. Questions concerning the importance that sports play in constructions of Australian indigeneities and the extent to which these have been maintained as marginal to Australian national identity are the central critical themes of this book. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : Barrie Houlihan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415129183
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport, Policy, and Politics written by Barrie Houlihan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genuinely comparative analysis of sport policy -making in five countries - Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and North America. Focuses on issues such as drug abuse, government intervention and the provision of sport in schools.

Author : Vegneskumar Maniam
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034314220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Participation and Cultural Identity in the Experience of Young People written by Vegneskumar Maniam and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on inclusion and exclusion in sporting activities among young people of varying cultural identities in a multicultural society. Itis important for all those in culturally diverse society especially academics, teachers and sports administrators, who are interested in the issue of exclusion and inclusion of cultural minorities in sport.

Author : E. Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137398515
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the British World, 1900-1930 written by E. Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.