Chris Hallinan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4221024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Hallinan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Hallinan |
| SIGNATURE | HALLINAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2816-7676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Football and remote Aboriginal community development in central Australia: The papunya model of holding
Assessing the sociology of sport: On indigeneity, politics of identity and Australian sports
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Chris Hallinan, a leading international scholar on the political and economic contexts of sport, considers the role of indigeneity and the politics of identity in Australian sports. The trajectory of inquiry departed from biocentric strands in human movement studies to extend the legacy of sociology of sport to critical analyses of racism, racialisation, the politics of ethnic identities, and their co…
The Aboriginal soccer tribe: A history of Aboriginal involvement with the world game
Although Australia is generally regarded as a nation enamoured with sports, Aboriginal Australians – at least in more recent times – have participated in sports to an even greater degree than non-A
Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many oppertunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different international contexts. The contributions, all written by Indigenous scholars and those working directly in Indigenous/Native Studies units, provid…
Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity
After numerous attempts to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Australia finally became a member in 2006 and was immediately re-designated from ‘Oceanic’ to ‘Asian’. In examining the impact of this move, we contextualize it within Australia’s broader economic and socio-cultural shift from its British roots to an increasing economic enmeshment with Asia. Australia’s AFC membership coincided with football’s corporatization locally, exempli…
The containment of soccer in Australia: Fencing off the world game
1. The Beautiful Game in Howard's 'Brutopia': Football, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Australia Chris Hallinan and John Hughson 2. Getting a Ticket to the World Party: Televising Soccer in Australia David Rowe and Callum Gilmour 3. Soccer and the Politics of Identity for Young Muslim Refugee Women in South Australia Catherine Palmer 4. Football Barriers - Aboriginal Under-Representation and Disconnection From the 'World Game' John Maynard 5. 'Hold…
Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment
The participation of large numbers of Indigenous players in Australian professional football is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the 1970s participation was, at best, limited. This paper identifies the underlying assumptions, shared values, beliefs and ideologies that have been held by the chief recruiters of elite teams. Football club recruiters are ideal subjects because, more than any other group of persons, they are gatekeepers of the…
You have the right to remain violent: Power and resistance in the club
This study examines the aggressive commodification and corporatisation strategies experienced by a Macedonian‐based club in the north‐western suburbs of Melbourne. The administrative acquisition of the club by a quasi‐corporate consortium colloquially referred to as the ‘Silver Lining’ emphasized an abated model of its cultural heritage in favour of a newly fashioned corporate identity. Further evidence obtained via fieldwork observations and int…
The beautiful game in Howard’s ‘Brutopia’: Football, ethnicity and citizenship in Australia
Writing in the British newspaper The Observer in 2006, Kevin Mitchell commented on the centrality of sport to the Australian way of life: ‘sport defines their culture ... It is their proud, shouting
Supporting the ‘World Game’ in Australia: A Case Study of Fandom at National and Club Level
While soccer football is the most popular participation team sport in Australia, it lags in the media and spectator sport. Media commentators have long suggested that the ‘world’ game is un‐ or less‐Australian because many teams and clubs are founded/organised around ‘ethnic’ non‐Anglo derivatives. Despite the re‐naming of the sport and the re‐construction of the national club competition around a decidedly corporate managerial structure with big…
Blackfellas” Basketball: Aboriginal Identity and Anglo-Australian Race Relations in Regional Basketball
This article is a study of an Aboriginal men’s sport team in an Australian regional community and their experiences with non-Aboriginal teams and their players. The data were drawn from interviews and conversations with the players of the Ballarat Wanderers men’s basketball team and the analysis is grounded in the inferential racism work of Hall (1995). Investigation of the Wanderers revealed that participation provided the players an uncommon op…
Seishin Habitus: Spiritual Capital and Japanese Rowing
Sport, including club activities in Japanese schools and universities, occupies an important place in educational curricula; but is it imbued with what Bourdieu suggests are guaranteed capital properties? That is, can sport and physical education help to accrue capital, and can such capital become cultural and economic capital? Further, is this capital similar to that resulting from academic education? Although western culture recognizes Cartesia…
Up Front and Beyond the Centre Line: Australian Aborigines in Elite Australian Rules Football
Although there has been a substantial growth in the number of Aboriginal players in the Australian Football League over the past decade, issues of structural and institutional racism have not been explored. This investigation of the assignment of players by position revealed marked patterns of difference, which tend to reflect stereotypes about Aboriginal athletes. The results are similar to research conducted in the USA and the UK but suggest ev…
Conceptions of Nationalism and Citizenship Among Noh-Anglo-Celtic Soccer Clubs in an Australian City
While soccer is not considered the major or primary sport of Australia, it is the primary or major sport in most of the European countries from where the non Anglo-Celtic population emigrated. Soccer is strongly associated with immigrant population groups and has often been regarded by Anglo-Celtic Australians as the 'ethnic game'. The overseas-born residents of Wollongong, Australia comprised 27% of that city's popula tion in 1981 - higher propo…
Aborigines and Positional Segregation in Australian Rugby League
Researchers have found the existence of positional segregation in North American and British sports in which an overrepresentation of black players existed. Data gathered for the 1987 and 1988 seasons are presented as a test of the 'stacking' and outcome control hypotheses in NSW rugby league, where an overrepresentation of Aborigines clearly existed. It was found that the most likely position to be played by an Aborigines as one which supports t…
Up Front and Beyond the Centre Line: Australian Aborigines in Elite Australian Rules Football
Although there has been a substantial growth in the number of Aboriginal players in the Australian Football League over the past decade, issues of structural and institutional racism have not been explored. This investigation of the assignment of players by position revealed marked patterns of difference, which tend to reflect stereotypes about Aboriginal athletes. The results are similar to research conducted in the USA and the UK but suggest ev…
Supporting the ‘World Game’ in Australia: A Case Study of Fandom at National and Club Level
While soccer football is the most popular participation team sport in Australia, it lags in the media and spectator sport. Media commentators have long suggested that the ‘world’ game is un‐ or less‐Australian because many teams and clubs are founded/organised around ‘ethnic’ non‐Anglo derivatives. Despite the re‐naming of the sport and the re‐construction of the national club competition around a decidedly corporate managerial structure with big…
Aborigines and Positional Segregation in Australian Rugby League
Researchers have found the existence of positional segregation in North American and British sports in which an overrepresentation of black players existed. Data gathered for the 1987 and 1988 seasons are presented as a test of the 'stacking' and outcome control hypotheses in NSW rugby league, where an overrepresentation of Aborigines clearly existed. It was found that the most likely position to be played by an Aborigines as one which supports t…
The beautiful game in Howard’s ‘Brutopia’: Football, ethnicity and citizenship in Australia
Writing in the British newspaper The Observer in 2006, Kevin Mitchell commented on the centrality of sport to the Australian way of life: ‘sport defines their culture ... It is their proud, shouting
Conceptions of Nationalism and Citizenship Among Noh-Anglo-Celtic Soccer Clubs in an Australian City
While soccer is not considered the major or primary sport of Australia, it is the primary or major sport in most of the European countries from where the non Anglo-Celtic population emigrated. Soccer is strongly associated with immigrant population groups and has often been regarded by Anglo-Celtic Australians as the 'ethnic game'. The overseas-born residents of Wollongong, Australia comprised 27% of that city's popula tion in 1981 - higher propo…
Blackfellas” Basketball: Aboriginal Identity and Anglo-Australian Race Relations in Regional Basketball
This article is a study of an Aboriginal men’s sport team in an Australian regional community and their experiences with non-Aboriginal teams and their players. The data were drawn from interviews and conversations with the players of the Ballarat Wanderers men’s basketball team and the analysis is grounded in the inferential racism work of Hall (1995). Investigation of the Wanderers revealed that participation provided the players an uncommon op…
Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment
The participation of large numbers of Indigenous players in Australian professional football is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the 1970s participation was, at best, limited. This paper identifies the underlying assumptions, shared values, beliefs and ideologies that have been held by the chief recruiters of elite teams. Football club recruiters are ideal subjects because, more than any other group of persons, they are gatekeepers of the…
Seishin Habitus: Spiritual Capital and Japanese Rowing
Sport, including club activities in Japanese schools and universities, occupies an important place in educational curricula; but is it imbued with what Bourdieu suggests are guaranteed capital properties? That is, can sport and physical education help to accrue capital, and can such capital become cultural and economic capital? Further, is this capital similar to that resulting from academic education? Although western culture recognizes Cartesia…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On indigeneity, politics of identity and Australian sports
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Chris Hallinan, a leading international scholar on the political and economic contexts of sport, considers the role of indigeneity and the politics of identity in Australian sports. The trajectory of inquiry departed from biocentric strands in human movement studies to extend the legacy of sociology of sport to critical analyses of racism, racialisation, the politics of ethnic identities, and their co…
Aborigines and Positional Segregation in Australian Rugby League
Researchers have found the existence of positional segregation in North American and British sports in which an overrepresentation of black players existed. Data gathered for the 1987 and 1988 seasons are presented as a test of the 'stacking' and outcome control hypotheses in NSW rugby league, where an overrepresentation of Aborigines clearly existed. It was found that the most likely position to be played by an Aborigines as one which supports t…
Conceptions of Nationalism and Citizenship Among Noh-Anglo-Celtic Soccer Clubs in an Australian City
While soccer is not considered the major or primary sport of Australia, it is the primary or major sport in most of the European countries from where the non Anglo-Celtic population emigrated. Soccer is strongly associated with immigrant population groups and has often been regarded by Anglo-Celtic Australians as the 'ethnic game'. The overseas-born residents of Wollongong, Australia comprised 27% of that city's popula tion in 1981 - higher propo…
Up Front and Beyond the Centre Line: Australian Aborigines in Elite Australian Rules Football
Although there has been a substantial growth in the number of Aboriginal players in the Australian Football League over the past decade, issues of structural and institutional racism have not been explored. This investigation of the assignment of players by position revealed marked patterns of difference, which tend to reflect stereotypes about Aboriginal athletes. The results are similar to research conducted in the USA and the UK but suggest ev…
Seishin Habitus: Spiritual Capital and Japanese Rowing
Sport, including club activities in Japanese schools and universities, occupies an important place in educational curricula; but is it imbued with what Bourdieu suggests are guaranteed capital properties? That is, can sport and physical education help to accrue capital, and can such capital become cultural and economic capital? Further, is this capital similar to that resulting from academic education? Although western culture recognizes Cartesia…
Supporting the ‘World Game’ in Australia: A Case Study of Fandom at National and Club Level
While soccer football is the most popular participation team sport in Australia, it lags in the media and spectator sport. Media commentators have long suggested that the ‘world’ game is un‐ or less‐Australian because many teams and clubs are founded/organised around ‘ethnic’ non‐Anglo derivatives. Despite the re‐naming of the sport and the re‐construction of the national club competition around a decidedly corporate managerial structure with big…
Blackfellas” Basketball: Aboriginal Identity and Anglo-Australian Race Relations in Regional Basketball
This article is a study of an Aboriginal men’s sport team in an Australian regional community and their experiences with non-Aboriginal teams and their players. The data were drawn from interviews and conversations with the players of the Ballarat Wanderers men’s basketball team and the analysis is grounded in the inferential racism work of Hall (1995). Investigation of the Wanderers revealed that participation provided the players an uncommon op…
You have the right to remain violent: Power and resistance in the club
This study examines the aggressive commodification and corporatisation strategies experienced by a Macedonian‐based club in the north‐western suburbs of Melbourne. The administrative acquisition of the club by a quasi‐corporate consortium colloquially referred to as the ‘Silver Lining’ emphasized an abated model of its cultural heritage in favour of a newly fashioned corporate identity. Further evidence obtained via fieldwork observations and int…
The beautiful game in Howard’s ‘Brutopia’: Football, ethnicity and citizenship in Australia
Writing in the British newspaper The Observer in 2006, Kevin Mitchell commented on the centrality of sport to the Australian way of life: ‘sport defines their culture ... It is their proud, shouting
Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment
The participation of large numbers of Indigenous players in Australian professional football is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the 1970s participation was, at best, limited. This paper identifies the underlying assumptions, shared values, beliefs and ideologies that have been held by the chief recruiters of elite teams. Football club recruiters are ideal subjects because, more than any other group of persons, they are gatekeepers of the…
The containment of soccer in Australia: Fencing off the world game
1. The Beautiful Game in Howard's 'Brutopia': Football, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Australia Chris Hallinan and John Hughson 2. Getting a Ticket to the World Party: Televising Soccer in Australia David Rowe and Callum Gilmour 3. Soccer and the Politics of Identity for Young Muslim Refugee Women in South Australia Catherine Palmer 4. Football Barriers - Aboriginal Under-Representation and Disconnection From the 'World Game' John Maynard 5. 'Hold…
Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many oppertunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different international contexts. The contributions, all written by Indigenous scholars and those working directly in Indigenous/Native Studies units, provid…
Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity
After numerous attempts to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Australia finally became a member in 2006 and was immediately re-designated from ‘Oceanic’ to ‘Asian’. In examining the impact of this move, we contextualize it within Australia’s broader economic and socio-cultural shift from its British roots to an increasing economic enmeshment with Asia. Australia’s AFC membership coincided with football’s corporatization locally, exempli…
The Aboriginal soccer tribe: A history of Aboriginal involvement with the world game
Although Australia is generally regarded as a nation enamoured with sports, Aboriginal Australians – at least in more recent times – have participated in sports to an even greater degree than non-A
Assessing the sociology of sport: On indigeneity, politics of identity and Australian sports
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Chris Hallinan, a leading international scholar on the political and economic contexts of sport, considers the role of indigeneity and the politics of identity in Australian sports. The trajectory of inquiry departed from biocentric strands in human movement studies to extend the legacy of sociology of sport to critical analyses of racism, racialisation, the politics of ethnic identities, and their co…
Football and remote Aboriginal community development in central Australia: The papunya model of holding
Sociology (13 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (13 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Football (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (6 works)