Decolonizing Sport

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Janice Forsyth is a member of the Fisher River Cree First Nation and a professor in the Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia. She is a recognized leader in Indigenous sport development in Canada. Her research has generated significant national and international attention among scholars and practitioners, and several of her studies are included in the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2017, she was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to research and advocacy.
Christine O’Bonsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation of Odanak and an associate professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Victoria, located on L?k?????n and W_SÁNEC Territories. Her scholarship takes up questions regarding the appropriation and subjugation of Indigenous Peoples’ identities and cultures in Olympic history and the future programming of the Games.Her work has recently focused on the legal and political rights of Indigenous peoples in relation to Canada’s hosting of the Olympic Games and other mega-sporting events on unceded Indigenous territories. O’Bonsawin co-authored Challenging Racist “British Columbia”: 150 Years and Counting and co-edited a special issue of BC Studies: (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific.
Russell Field is an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba. His research explores sport and social justice, with current projects focusing on global sporting events as sites of resistance and protest, as well as the concept of “people’s history.” He is the principal investigator of the SSHRC-funded project A People’s History of Sport in Canada. He is the founder and executive director of the Canadian Sport Film Festival.
Murray Phillips is a professor of sport history in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. He was the interim head of the School and acting director of the university’s Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. He is president of the North American Society for Sport History and was president of the Australian Society for Sport History and editor of the Journal of Sport History.