by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association e-journal (2008) Traditional constructs of inequality and discrimination to explain the life chances of indigenous Australians have been supplanted by the discourse of disadvantage. The boundaries of exclusion are made less clear by the emergence of inclusive discourse related to increased access and participation (outcomes) [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in G. Tsolidis (Ed.) Migration, Diaspora and Identity: Cross National Experiences (2014) She saw what she wanted to see. But the world does not divide as neatly on the ground as it does when gazed upon from an ivory tower (Baum 2008). Hylton (2005) writes that “where race has been ignored, include it, where [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education (2009) This article proposes that progressive frameworks underpinned by diversity are contradictory to the inclusion of the ‘other’ in Australian higher education. I integrate the critical race theory constructs of disregard and convergence with white privilege and indigenous lacking to claim that objective processes underpinned by merit [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
A co-authored article with Chris Hallinan published in the journal of Australian Aboriginal Studies (2017) This study draws on critical race theory to examine common sense assumptions of race and racism so as to identify the distortions in logic in the justification that the booing of Indigenous athlete Adam Goodes was not ‘racist’. It is [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in the Journal of Australian Aboriginal Studies (2016) Williams (1992) draws on alchemy to describe how racism is ‘infused’ with rights. The booing of Indigenous athlete Adam Goodes in the Australian Football League (AFL) in 2015 was dissolved into fictitious right of moral equivalence. Booing could not be ‘racist’ because non-Indigenous athletes are also [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in the Journal of Australian Indigenous Studies (2013) This study examines the dismissal of race and by implication racism within judicial interpretation of fairness in the context of racial discrimination in Australian sport. It is claimed that this hinges on an evaluation of fairness that is paradoxical. McNamara’s (1998) construct of evaluative racism is [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Journal articles/book chapters
Published in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2007) In the article ‘The Fire Within’, Anthony Mundine, the Australian indigenous boxer and world bantam weight title holder, is the subject of discussion around his inability to be his own man. Martin Flanagan (2006: 6) writes that ‘Mundine is commonly accused of aping Muhammad [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works
The second edition of The Real and Unreal reflects on the objective in the first, which was to claim the changing significance of race in the context of Australian sport. Race is celebrated in terms of indigenous athletic dominance yet the persistence of racial inequality on and off field is denied. The approach, underlined by [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works
Race is said to be irrelevant conceptually. Drawing on the notion of race formations (evolutionary hegemony), this study engages with the changing significance of race through an examination of contemporary narratives depicting indigenous efficacy for sport in popular print content. The centrality of the black athletic body to narratives of indigenous dominance in Australian football [...]
by Avidadmin | Jul 9, 2017 | Author's works, Book
Ruff and Ritual records my observations and critical reflections whilst deployed to Papua New Guinea as a ‘trailing spouse’ to my partner, Shane, an Australian official. First and foremost, it pays respect to the people of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in particular the many women who are so giving and work tirelessly for their country. [...]