John
Thanks for the note and the references; they look interesting.
My original e-mail to the critical geography forum was intended to point out
that the discussion of sport had generated more interest and dialogue than
the recent bombings of minority communities in London. I think that this is
problematic and reflects a certain unease and perhaps even denial. Maybe it
is easier to write about sport in a certain manner, rather than the direct
threats to specific members of the population? I am of the opinion that one
issue is more urgent. At least to the communities themselves. After all,
lives were at risk. This could also reflect a lack of minority
participation and membership in UK geography. Perhaps this can be explored
within the critical geography forum, the same insightful way issues of
gender and class differentiation were discussed several weeks ago, in light
of the Guardian article that reported on pay differences at UK universities.
Do disparities exist based on `race' or `ethnicity' within geography in the
UK? At the UK universities in general? In terms of the academic and
support staff?
I think another important element to this issues, is the related and obvious
topic of the association of white racists and fascist movements associated
with sport and particularly football in the UK and throughout much of
Europe. Racists associated with football hooliganism, have been connected to
all sorts of violence in the past. Perhaps this poses an interesting issue
for research in terms of sport, identity and nationalism. There are
examples in other sports, such as the Tebitt `cricket test'. In other
words, these issues do not necessarily have to be separated.
With best wishes,
Charles
At 01:37 07/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Charles
>
>On the contrary: the geographies of identity and sexuality are far more
developed and
>written about in academic geography than sport is. Having said that the
following may be of
>interest.
>
>On the significance of sport in geography see J. Scott and P.
Simpson-Housley 'Relativizing
>the relativizes" _TIBG_, NS14, 1989, pp. 231-6.; C. Philo, 'In the same
ballpark?', in J. Bale (ed)
>_Community, Landscape and identity: Horizons in a Geography of Sport_,
Dept. Geog. Occ.
>pap 20, Keele University, 1995, pp. 1-8.
>
>It might also be of interest to note the significance of sport in written
work in geography that
>is ostensibly concerned with other things: e.g. A. Pred, in _Re-cognizing
European
>Modernities_ (1995) devotes almost a third of the book to a sports/leisure
facility in Stockholm
>(the Globe) while in a recent paper in _Antipode_ (1997) C. Gallaher in
'Identity politics and the
>religious right' reads the presence of NCAA Div. I sports at Jerry
Falwell's Liberty University
>as a means of legitimating that institution's fundamentalist views.
>
>Cheers
>
>John Bale
>
>
>
>On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:53:21 -0400 Charles Small
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>>THANK YOU ROBERT CAMPBELL! FINALLY SOME `TRUTH' ABOUT LACROSSE!
>>
>>Interesting how lacrosse and notions of elitist sports... generate more
>>interest than issues of marginalistion and identity in the UK, in light of
>>the communities that were recently bombed in London.
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