Sport, Race and Ethnicity

Katie Liston has published extensively on the sociology of sport, including topics such as gender, migration, national identity, feminisms and sports policy. She is currently engaged in research on sport and the Empire, sport-for-development and women’s sports migration. Paddy Dolan examines consumer culture and subjectivity and has published on this and research methods. More recently he has extended his focus to the study of sport and Gaelic games, their organisation and development, and to sports spectatorship. Other research interests include the development of childhood subjectivities and identities, cosmopolitanism and the sociology of emotions.

• 1. Introduction 2. Orientalism through sport: towards a Said-ian analysis of imperialism and ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ 3. Ethnicized boxing: the tale of Ghana’s boxing roots in local martial art 4. Sport development programmes for Indigenous Australians: innovation, inclusion and development, or a product of ‘white guilt’? 5. Finding strength(s): insights on Aboriginal physical cultural practices in Canada 6. Te Whariki Tuakiri (the identity mat): Māori elite athletes and the expression of ethno-cultural identity in global sport 7. Changes through the lens? US photographic newspaper coverage of female high school athletes