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Ethnicity, structure and globalization : an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958–2010

Hay, Roy 2011, Ethnicity, structure and globalization : an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958–2010, Sport in society, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 833-850.

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Title Ethnicity, structure and globalization : an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958–2010
Author(s) Hay, Roy
Journal name Sport in society
Volume number 14
Issue number 6
Start page 833
End page 850
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication Abingdon, England
Publication date 2011-08
ISSN 1743-0437
Summary The overwhelming weight of academic historical writing on Association football in Australia since the 1970s has focused on the game through the prism of ethnicity. The ills of the game and its failure to become the dominant code of football, as it is in many countries, are regularly attributed to the many ways in which the game was or could be portrayed as a foreign import that brought non-Australian concerns onto the sporting field where they had no place. Here it is argued that structural issues have a much greater role to play in understanding the evolution of the game since the 1950s. Global changes in sport and Association football in particular have also impinged significantly on the game in Australia. Now football is a major part of the Australian sporting landscape, though its position vis-a`-vis rival codes remains contested.
Language eng
Field of Research 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
Socio Economic Objective 950503 Understanding Australia's Past
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2011, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30041508

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