Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Straight-line Stories : Representations and Indigenous Australian Identities in Sports Discourses
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'There is an increasing body of literature, and awareness, of the nature of deficit discourse and its contribution to the essentialising of Indigenous identity. Through an analysis of sports writing since the 1960s, this paper explores how such discourses can develop. Sport, however, has another attribute: it is the avenue by which Aborigines and Islanders have earned and demanded the respect of non-Aboriginal Australia; it has given them a sense of worth and pride, especially since they have had to overcome the twin burdens of racism and opposition on the field. It has shown Aborigines and Islanders that using their bodies is still the one and only way they can compete on equal terms with an often hostile, certainly indifferent, mainstream society (Tatz and Tatz 2000:33). In the aftermath of civil rights victories, the politics of 'victimhood' became the predominant methodology of black advocacy and the reigning paradigm of public policy thinking (Pearson 2007:26).' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2011 Z1835741 2011 periodical issue

    'This non-thematic edition of Australian Aboriginal Studies contains papers covering a range of topics, including analysis of discourse and representation in sport writing; the relationship between journalism and policy making; water values and resource development in the Pilbara; the development of an Indigenous Land Use Agreement at Bidyadanga in the Kimberley; examination of a nineteenth century map of Gunditjmara eel traps; and the history of the New South Wales Aboriginal Lands Trust. This edition’s research report describes the experience and impact of Indigenous involvement in the Master of Applied Epidemiology program at The Australian National University.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2011
    pg. 5-20
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