NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

In November, 2016, the “Pillars of the community” public art installation was unveiled at the rear of the new state of the art arena, Roger’s Place, in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, home to the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers franchise. In distinct juxtaposition... Read More →

In the International Year of Indigenous Languages (2019) it timely to consider the effects of language -- and particularly the hegemony of the English language -- on both sport and scholarship._x000D_ This paper will consider both the loss of language(s), and the homogenizing effects... Read More →

Session: Sport, History, & Settler ColonialismPolicing the New Urban Sporting FrontierIn 2016, Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arenathe anchor of a broader entertainment districtopened in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, an area of spatially concentrated racialized... Read More →

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Final Report Call to Action #87 states: “We call upon all levels of government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, sports halls of fame, and other relevant organizations, to provide public education that tells the national story of Aboriginal... Read More →

Session: Soccer Across the GlobeStreet Soccer Scotland: Social inclusion through sport-based programsAgainst the backdrop of neoliberalism and the expansion of inequality, there has been a marked growth in the number of sport-for-development non-profit organizations that provide a... Read More →

Re-routing Settler Colonial MovementThe paper illustrates ways I seek to become accountable for, and also delink from, my recreational/sporting settler movements on Turtle Island with my historical colonial-familial subject positioning as Sykes and the 1916 Sykes-Picot mapping of... Read More →

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Final Report Call to Action #87 states: “We call upon all levels of government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, sports halls of fame, and other relevant organizations, to provide public education that tells the national story of Aboriginal... Read More →