Tag: colonialism

This special issue aims to address current gaps by inviting contributions that challenge hegemonic frameworks, decolonize sports theory, and foreground the multiplicity of sporting experiences in regions such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The overall purpose of this special issue is to center the Global South voices as a primary lens by avoiding the essentialist, colonized, unfair, and Westernized perspectives. 

By addressing what leisure domains say and do, do and make throughout the borders, borderlands and crossings that traverse unequal global geographies of power, this special issue aims to connect/bring together issues that tend to be addressed as separated in and beyond interdisciplinary leisure studies (leisure and forced migration, Indigenous knowledges and sovereignties, disability, intersecting urban exclusions, settler colonialism, climate change).

In the field of sport studies in the Nordic region, important contributions have pointed to the persistence of gender as a key organising principle and symbolic practice, at both the elite and grassroots levels. The main focus of academic work on sport and in/exclusion has tended to focus on gender and/or ethnicity as the primary markers of difference and sameness. In this, questions of racism and coloniality have largely been overlooked, and left underexplored.