Victoria Paraschak
Biographic Data
| ID | 6103925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Paraschak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Paraschak |
| SIGNATURE | PARASCHAK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sport History in the Dark
In this article, I discuss the intertwining of academic and activist activities tied to Indigenous sport history using examples from my professional career to argue for the relevance of hope and the need to draw on our many strengths as academics in creating “good” public sport history. Relevant conceptual underpinnings are outlined, including a strengths and hope perspective, survivance, collective hope, and a hope-enhancing environment. Links t…
Everyday activism and “actionable” hope as tempered radicals
This paper takes its departure from Rebecca Solnit's idea that there should be “hope in darkness” as we work towards a shared preferred future that resists gendered and racial inequities and oppressions. We put forward “actionable” hope which embodies hope as an everyday action, an activism enacted by “tempered radicals” (Meyerson & Scully, 1995). This thinking about the relationship between hope and activism emerged through our coming together a…
Alan Metcalfe “at Work” Constructing Sport History
Alan Metcalfe, of the University of Windsor, was a leading figure in establishing sport history in Canada, while playing a founding role in NASSH. He served as the first editor of the Journal of Sport History, long-time editor of CJHSPE (1970–96), and NASSH president from 1983 to 1985. While maintaining research about mining communities in North East England, he is best known for his research on Canada. Through an examination of Metcalfe's profes…
Reconciliation, Sport History, and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
A strengths-and-hope perspective was used to explicate the process underpinning, as well as the benefits and challenges arising from the intertwining of sport history and public history in a Canadian sesquicentennial public history project. The project goal was to contribute toward the Truth and Reconciliation Final Report Call to Action #87 by ensuring that public education, in the form of Wikipedia entries on elite Indigenous athletes in Canada…
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Book Review| October 01 2014 Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era Krystal, Matthew. Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012. Pp. xxii+315. Notes, index, 38 black-and-white photographs, and tables. $70.00 cb, $60.00 ebook. Victoria Paraschak Victoria Paraschak University of Windsor Search for other works by this author on…
Variations in Race Relations
Four native sporting practices from different parts of Canada—the Arctic Winter Games and the Northern Games from northern Canada, and the Native Sport and Recreation Program and the All-Indian Sport System from southern Canada—are analyzed within the broader context of race relations in Canada (which differentially shape, and are shaped by, the “practical consciousness” of native peoples). Within these race relations, native participants are fac…
Leftist Theories of Sport
To Run with Longboat
Organized Sport for Native Females on the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario from 1968 to 1980
Native Sport History
Variations in Race Relations
Four native sporting practices from different parts of Canada—the Arctic Winter Games and the Northern Games from northern Canada, and the Native Sport and Recreation Program and the All-Indian Sport System from southern Canada—are analyzed within the broader context of race relations in Canada (which differentially shape, and are shaped by, the “practical consciousness” of native peoples). Within these race relations, native participants are fac…
Native Sport History
Organized Sport for Native Females on the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario from 1968 to 1980
To Run with Longboat
Variations in Race Relations
Four native sporting practices from different parts of Canada—the Arctic Winter Games and the Northern Games from northern Canada, and the Native Sport and Recreation Program and the All-Indian Sport System from southern Canada—are analyzed within the broader context of race relations in Canada (which differentially shape, and are shaped by, the “practical consciousness” of native peoples). Within these race relations, native participants are fac…
Leftist Theories of Sport
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Book Review| October 01 2014 Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era Krystal, Matthew. Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012. Pp. xxii+315. Notes, index, 38 black-and-white photographs, and tables. $70.00 cb, $60.00 ebook. Victoria Paraschak Victoria Paraschak University of Windsor Search for other works by this author on…
Reconciliation, Sport History, and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
A strengths-and-hope perspective was used to explicate the process underpinning, as well as the benefits and challenges arising from the intertwining of sport history and public history in a Canadian sesquicentennial public history project. The project goal was to contribute toward the Truth and Reconciliation Final Report Call to Action #87 by ensuring that public education, in the form of Wikipedia entries on elite Indigenous athletes in Canada…
Alan Metcalfe “at Work” Constructing Sport History
Alan Metcalfe, of the University of Windsor, was a leading figure in establishing sport history in Canada, while playing a founding role in NASSH. He served as the first editor of the Journal of Sport History, long-time editor of CJHSPE (1970–96), and NASSH president from 1983 to 1985. While maintaining research about mining communities in North East England, he is best known for his research on Canada. Through an examination of Metcalfe's profes…
Everyday activism and “actionable” hope as tempered radicals
This paper takes its departure from Rebecca Solnit's idea that there should be “hope in darkness” as we work towards a shared preferred future that resists gendered and racial inequities and oppressions. We put forward “actionable” hope which embodies hope as an everyday action, an activism enacted by “tempered radicals” (Meyerson & Scully, 1995). This thinking about the relationship between hope and activism emerged through our coming together a…
Sport History in the Dark
In this article, I discuss the intertwining of academic and activist activities tied to Indigenous sport history using examples from my professional career to argue for the relevance of hope and the need to draw on our many strengths as academics in creating “good” public sport history. Relevant conceptual underpinnings are outlined, including a strengths and hope perspective, survivance, collective hope, and a hope-enhancing environment. Links t…
Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)