TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond boundaries? 'Race', ethnicity and identity in sport
AU - Adair, Daryl
AU - Rowe, David
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This special issue of IRSS was conceived in the wake of the conference ‘Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding’, which was staged by the University of Technology Sydney from 30 November to 2 December 2008.1 That symposium was a sequel to ‘Race and Sport: Building a Global Understanding’, held at the University of Iowa in 2006,2 though with the addition of ethnicity as a key theme. A third such conference, ‘Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern Sport’, was held in Barbados 15–18 July 2010, hosted jointly by the University of West Indies, Cave Hill and George Mason University, Washington, DC.3 These symposia began with a focus on questions around race and sport, but have since engaged explicitly with race and ethnicity – the assumption being that both are integral to understandings of identity, commonality, difference, diversity, and discrimination in sport and society. This dual engagement of race and ethnicity widens the scope of analysis, but it also presents challenges, such as contention over what these descriptors are said to represent, and their complex and often contradictory relationship. The articles herein, when taken as a whole, provide the reader with an opportunity for reflection upon sport and societal structures, norms, values, narratives, discourses and symbols in the context of what might be termed ethno-racial studies.
AB - This special issue of IRSS was conceived in the wake of the conference ‘Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding’, which was staged by the University of Technology Sydney from 30 November to 2 December 2008.1 That symposium was a sequel to ‘Race and Sport: Building a Global Understanding’, held at the University of Iowa in 2006,2 though with the addition of ethnicity as a key theme. A third such conference, ‘Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern Sport’, was held in Barbados 15–18 July 2010, hosted jointly by the University of West Indies, Cave Hill and George Mason University, Washington, DC.3 These symposia began with a focus on questions around race and sport, but have since engaged explicitly with race and ethnicity – the assumption being that both are integral to understandings of identity, commonality, difference, diversity, and discrimination in sport and society. This dual engagement of race and ethnicity widens the scope of analysis, but it also presents challenges, such as contention over what these descriptors are said to represent, and their complex and often contradictory relationship. The articles herein, when taken as a whole, provide the reader with an opportunity for reflection upon sport and societal structures, norms, values, narratives, discourses and symbols in the context of what might be termed ethno-racial studies.
KW - ethnicity
KW - race
KW - sports
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/509081
M3 - Article
SN - 1461-7218
SN - 1012-6902
JO - International Review for the Sociology of Sport
JF - International Review for the Sociology of Sport
ER -