Settler Colonialism, Sport, and Recreation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23539477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Laurendeau (0000-0003-4030-0596), Jay Laurendeau |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Settler Colonialism, Sport, and Recreation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Common Ground Research Networks (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.18848/978-1-963049-26-8/cgp |
| OpenAlex | W4402912524 |
| Open Library | OL51143925M |
| ISBN | 9781963049268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Laurendeau interrogates the interconnections between settler colonialism and sport, recreation and physical activity, theorizing sport as both a site of ongoing colonial violence and a vital space of resistance, refusal, and reterritorialization. Laurendeau explains that settler colonialism is not a relic of a past moment but an ongoing genocidal project in still settling states as they perpetually work to claim ownership of and authority over stolen lands as part of a project of capital accumulation. Moreover, Laurendeau highlights, settler colonialism is a project that is fundamentally relational, structuring the lives not only of Indigenous peoples but of all who live in occupied territories. Sport and recreation, Laurendeau explains, constitute a key cultural space that produces and/or challenges ideas about bodies, relationships, belonging, nationhood, sovereignty, and more. Drawing primarily but not exclusively on examples unfolding on lands claimed by Canada, Laurendeau describes how sports like lacrosse and hockey, mega-events such as the North American Indigenous Games, and institutions and practices like sport in residential schools illustrate both the violences of settler colonialism and the refusals of those violences. Laurendeau takes an explicitly politicized approach to this work, highlighting the need to dismantle a social world that values profit over people and some people over others, a world that renders lives (of many people, most non-human animals, and the planet itself) expendable in the pursuit of perpetual economic growth.
Archaeology · Colonialism · Geography · Political science · Recreation · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Sports
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |