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Author : Bob Stewart
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415340470
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Author : Kristine Toohey,Tracy Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317969143
Australia is only a small player in the world’s political and economic landscapes, yet, for many decades, it has been considered to be a global powerhouse in terms of its sporting successes. In conjunction with this notion, the nation has long been portrayed as having a preoccupation with sport. This labelling has been seen as both a blessing and a curse. Those who value a Bourdieuian view of culture bemoan sport’s centrality to the national imagination and the consequent lack of media coverage, funding and prestige accorded to the arts. Other scholars question whether the popular stereotype of the Australian sportsperson is, in fact, a myth and that instead Australians are predominantly passive sport consumers rather than active sport participants. Australian sport, through its successes on the field of play and in advancing sport coaching and management, has undergone a revolution, as both an enabler of global processes and as subject to its influences (economic, political, migratory etc.). This book will examine the shifting place of Australian sports in current global and local environs, from the perspective of spectators, players and administrators. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author : Richard Light,John Robert Evans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783319664507
This book presents journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of a‘footy’ to the highest levels of Australian football and rugby league, conceptualized as a processof learning. The authors challenge simplistic explanations of Indigenous success in Australianfootball and rugby league, centered on the notion of the ‘natural athlete’. The book tracesthe development of Indigenous sporting expertise as a lifelong process of learning situated inlocal culture and shaped by the challenges of transitioning into professional sport. Individually,the life stories told by the participants provide fascinating insights into experience, cultureand learning. Collectively, they provide deep understanding of the powerful influence thatAboriginal culture exerted on the participants’ journeys to the top of their sports while locatingindividual experience and agency within larger economic, cultural and social considerations.Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport will be of interest to students and scholarsacross a range of disciplines including Indigenous studies, physical education, education, sportmanagement and sociology
Author : Christopher J. Hallinan,Barry Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134904495
The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports. Historically, Australian sports have provided a rare and important social context in which Indigenous Australians could engage with and participate in non-Indigenous society. Today, Indigenous Australian people in sports continue to provide important points of reference around which national public dialogue about racial and cultural relations in Australia takes place. Yet much media coverage surrounding these issues and almost all academic interest concerning Indigenous people and Australian sports is constructed from non-Indigenous perspectives. With a few notable exceptions, the racial and cultural implications of Australian sports as viewed from an Indigenous Australian Studies perspective remains understudied. The media coverage and academic discussion of Indigenous people and Australian sports is largely constructed within the context of Anglo-Australian nationalist discourse, and becomes most emphasised when reporting on aspects of ‘racial and cultural’ explanations of Indigenous sporting excellence and failures associated anomalous behaviour. This book investigates the many ways that Indigenous Australians have engaged with Australian sports and the racial and cultural readings that have been associated with these engagements. Questions concerning the importance that sports play in constructions of Australian indigeneities and the extent to which these have been maintained as marginal to Australian national identity are the central critical themes of this book. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Aust. Bureau of Statistics
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Adams,John Rothfield
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781743582206
From racing to football to lawn bowls, no sport has been left untouched. Great Australian Sports Rorts reveals that nefarious conduct has affected just about every sport in this country. And every mechanism known – be it physical, mechanical or chemical – has been employed. When a sporting contest is taking place, and there is either a reward for the winner or there is betting on the contest, it is almost guaranteed that one person will attempt to relieve another person of what is rightfully theirs. And if a degree of skulduggery is required to attain the right result or to assist in the transfer of funds from one person’s pocket to another, then so be it. Cheating: it’s as Australian as Sunday barbecues.Join John ‘Dr Turf’ Rothfield and John Adams on a rollicking ride through the sporting outrages that have rocked Australia.
Author : Bob Stewart
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415340462
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Author : Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Athletes
ISBN : PSU:000023612952
The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport appears in a revised, updated and greatly expanded new edition. Produced by the Australian Society for Sports History, this is the first authoritative and encyclopedic reference work on all sports played in Australia. It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and character of the innumerable codes that constitute the Australian sporting character. All sports are covered - not just the major ones like cricket, Australian Rules, lawn tennis, and horse-racing. The Companion offers succinct and informative entries on famous sportsmen and women, and on major institutions, competitions and venues. The Companion also offers thematic essays on crucial aspects of the history, culture and professionalization of sport in Australia. For the first time readers have access to biographies of sporting champions from different codes, all of whom rub shoulders in this literary pantheon. For the second edition, the editors have commissionedfour major new thematic essays: Coaching, Disabled Sportsmen and Women, Regionalism, and the Olympic Winter Games. Seven more sports have been added (badminton, bicycle racing, curling, fives, petanque, ring bowls, and surfing), along with 38 additional clubs. The second edition boasts 240 new biographies. One of its major features is a `list of lists', which provides full details about major competitions such as the Stawell Gift, Davis Cup finals, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the Sheffield Shield, Brownlow Medallists - to name just a few of the lists contained in this Appendix. Greatly expanded and offering a readable cultural history of Australian sport, the Oxford Companion to Australian Sport is essential reading for sportsmen and women, administrators, journalists and sports followers.
Author : John Bloomfield
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0868405825
The extraordinary performances of Australian athletes, and the awareness of the system that fostered them, came to the world's attention during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Bloomfield traces the development of Australian sport from the early 19th century to the modern day institutions that drive our sporting success.
Author : Wray Vamplew,Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521071356
This is the first single-volume book to deal comprehensively with Australia's sporting life. It covers the history of a range of individual sports in Australia, including cricket, horse-racing, netball, rowing, tennis, lawn bowls, swimming, surfing, and the various football codes. The book demonstrates the central role of sports in Australian popular culture and shows the ways in which sports reflect changing Australian society.
Author : Steve Georgakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Athletes
ISBN : UOM:39015061158112
Author : Daryl Adair,Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004120514
Australians are often said to be obsessed with sport, and playing and watching sport have long been regarded as national pastimes. This book is an innovative and exciting study of the political, economic, social, and cultural role that sport has played in Australia since European settlement.
Author : Richard Cashman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports
ISBN : 1876718080
Australia has long been regarded by many as a paradise of sport. However, few have questioned when, why and how this occurred. Who created it and for whom?
Author : Ian Heads,Norman Tasker
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781760789114
'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee 'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a century combined in journalism.' Ian Chappell, former Australian cricket Captain. Australia enjoys a rich sporting heritage. Our small population has yielded a disproportionate number of champions. These sports stars have become known worldwide as fierce combatants and honourable competitors, achieving soaring victories, but also heart-pounding near-wins and humbling defeats. Veteran Australian sports journalists Ian Heads and Norman Tasker have seen it all. In these 65 original stories, we hear of the explosive introduction of World Series Cricket in 1977, which turned a genteel endeavour into a high-octane contest, and the clash of the titans as Packer and Murdoch squared off over the Super League war. We see Rugby Union become a battleground for race and the Olympics an arena for sublime acts of courage and achievement. We get an insider's perspective on every kind of sporting endeavour - from boxing to tennis, cricket to AFL, athletics to rugby league - and not just the action on the field, but the change room gossip and clubhouse politics as well. Written with wit, insight and a wealth of knowledge, Great Australian Sporting Stories is an enthralling expedition into the combative, collegiate, entertaining and always exciting world of Australian sport.
Author : Trevor D. Jaques,G. R. Pavia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000008291820