When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League
dc.contributor.author | Burdsey, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gorman, Sean | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T14:29:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T14:29:50Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-12-10T04:25:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Burdsey, D. and Gorman, S. 2015. When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League. Sport in Society. 18 (5): pp. 577-587. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39056 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17430437.2014.976007 | |
dc.description.abstract |
This article employs a 2013 televised dialogue on racism between two male, minority ethnic, global football stars – Adam Goodes of the Australian Rules code and Rio Ferdinand, an English Premier League player – for a timely, comparative and cross-cultural analysis of issues around race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and identity, and dominant approaches to anti-racism and multiculturalism within these codes. Prior to the television interview, the Indigenous Goodes had been racially vilified by a 13-year-old female spectator during a match, and subsequently likened to King Kong by Collingwood president, Eddie McGuire. After an opponent racially slurred his brother during a 2011 match, Ferdinand initiated a protest, followed by many fellow professionals, against the perceived inaction to racism from football authorities by refusing to wear T-shirts promoting the work of anti-racist organization, Kick It Out. The article argues that, despite their differences, dialogue between the two football codes holds the potential for progressive anti-racist policy-making. | |
dc.title | When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 18 | |
dcterms.source.number | 5 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 577 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 587 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1743-0437 | |
dcterms.source.title | Sport in Society | |
curtin.department | School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts | |
curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |
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