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Shifting Egalitarianisms and Contemporary Racism in Rural Victorian Football: The Rumbalara Experience
Author(s) -
Tynan Michael
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/j.1835-9310.2007.tb00096.x
Subject(s) - mainstream , racism , egalitarianism , football , sociology , ideology , gender studies , identity (music) , situated , power (physics) , field (mathematics) , club , sociology of sport , media studies , aesthetics , politics , political science , law , art , medicine , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics , anatomy
This article builds on our understanding of racism towards Aboriginal people in Australia through an examination of discriminatory belief structures pervasive in the mainstream community as evidenced through the important social field of country football in regional Victoria. It analyses the power and pervasiveness of the racial stereotyping that exists in some segments of the community by using Langton's (1997) notion of ‘iconic images' as well as discussing the importance of particular ideological motivations around values such as ‘egalitarianism’. This is achieved through analysing the views of players, supporters and officials of mainstream clubs towards the Aboriginal Rumbalara Football Netball Club. This analysis is structurally situated within a broader understanding of Australian national identity, in particular looking at the intersection of the powerful cultural domains of sport and evolving expressions of whiteness and egalitarianism.