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.

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.

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