In order to test Hallinan’s “Anglocentric Hypothesis,” New Zealand head coaches of female netball union teams completed two mailed questionnaires. The statistical analysis was based on 177 European (69.1%) and 79 Maori (30.9%) players. An overall chi-square for Race x Playing Position was nonsignificant, χ2(6) = 8.40. Specifically, Europeans were nonsignificantly overrepresented at center, the most central, highest interacting position. Occupancy of the most tactically important playing position, goal defense, also did not significantly vary by race. Lastly, goal shoot, the position judged by the coaches as being highest in outcome control, also did not favor either race. The results are discussed in terms of the historical record of Maori women’s participation in netball, majority–minority relations in New Zealand, and several methodological issues and concerns that attend “stacking” investigations.
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Maori Women and Positional Segregation in New Zealand Netball: Another Test of the Anglocentric Hypothesis
Merrill J. Melnick
The Mäori All Blacks and the Decentering of the White Subject: Hyperrace, Sport, and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Brendan Hokowhitu and Jay Scherer
In this article we examine a range of media discourses surrounding the continued existence of the Mäori All Blacks, a “racially” selected rugby side, and a specific public controversy that erupted in New Zealand over the selection of former All Black great Christian Cullen for the Mäori All Blacks in 2003. Having never played for the Mäori All Blacks or publicly identified as Mäori, Cullen claimed tangata whenua status via whakapapa (genealogical connection) to his Ngäi Tahu grandfather. We argue that Cullen’s selection emerged as a contentious issue because of the fragmentation that the inclusion of his “Whiteness” within the confines of “an Other” team (i.e., the Mäori All Blacks) brought to bear on traditional colonial binaries of race in the context of late capitalism. Finally, we locate the debates over Cullen’s selection and the continued existence of the Mäori All Blacks in relation to the current racialized political climate that has fueled a Right-wing reaction to the growing Mäori self-determination movement.
Decolonizing Sport Science: High Performance Sport, Indigenous Cultures, and Women's Rugby
Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice, and Anna Rolleston
physiological tests (blood work, RMR, DEXA scans, and nutritional diaries) with qualitative interviews, to study the complex pathology of the health condition known as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). 2 As the project evolved, culturally important themes emerged from the interviews with Māori and
Decolonizing Sports Sociology is a “Verb not a Noun”: Indigenizing Our Way to Reconciliation and Inclusion in the 21st Century? Alan Ingham Memorial Lecture
Paul Whitinui
colonization. In 2003, a renowned Indigenous Māori scholar—Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith from Aotearoa New Zealand—argued that transforming leadership in the academy is as much an exercise in critical literacy as it is about engaging multiple sites of the struggle—constitutionally, nationally, locally
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair
Lucen Liu and Liyun Wendy Choo
113-min joint interview with the mother–daughter pair. Thus, in contrast to the rest of the data collected as part of A1’s doctoral work ( Liu, 2018 ), which focused broadly on how female Chinese table tennis players and female Māori waka ama paddlers make sense of risk, pain, and injury, this joint
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination
Mark Falcous and Lauren Turner
arena challenged the monolithic archetype ( Phillips, 1987 ). Simultaneously, an indigenous Mãori resurgence (with political, economic, and cultural dimensions); fading imperial ties; neoliberal economics; and feminist gains unsettled the previously stable place of Pākehā masculinity at the center of
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks
Mika Rathwell, Robert Henry, and Sam McKegney
problematized these prevailing myths. In their study with Māori rugby players in New Zealand, Hippolite and Bruce suggested that although the increased visibility of elite Māori athletes over the years has reinforced the “broader societal belief in sport as a site of positive racial opportunity and race
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play
Adam Ehsan Ali and Samantha King
construction of the “proper” Maori sportsmen ( Hokowhitu, 2004 ). These works, alongside those that highlight shifts in sporting cultures in the post-9/11 era in the form of intensified megaevent surveillance and security ( Atkinson & Young, 2012 ; Schimmel, 2011 , 2012 ; Sugden, 2012 ; Samatas, 2007
Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal
Jessica R. Nachman, Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Audrey R. Giles, Rochelle Stewart-Withers, and Daniel A. Henhawk
, contributed to a powerful movement toward asserting their own team as representing a sovereign nation. Thorpe et al.’s ( 2020 ) research with wāhine (Māori women) rugby athletes provided a less obvious example of refusal in sport. In interviewing the athletes about bioethics, they found that no players voiced
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes
Wendy O’Brien, Caroline Riot, and Clare Minahan
knowing in high-performance sport quantify and measure the sporting body. These practices had become normalized and accepted by the Maori and Samoan women rugby players in their study. It is difficult to gauge the degree of acceptance and normalization within the context of this study without a much
