Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development - Grant ID: DI0882245

Funded Activity Summary

Reconciliation game: Australian Football in the new South Africa. An understanding of the role sport has played in shaping settler/native relationships will enable Australia to support the development of enduring and meaning football contacts with post-Apartheid South Africa. These will be built on appraisals that admit a similar colonial inheritance to sport in South Africa. Recent embrace of Indigenous Australian participation in Australian Football indicates the possibility of reconciliation and the potential for positive sporting interchange with post-Apartheid South Africa. This study examines how reconciliations through Australia - South Africa sporting dialogue can not only be promoted but realised in terms of developing sustained and socially meaningful engagements.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development

Funding Amount: $170,648.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Aboriginal Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding other countries | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare

Other Keywords

Aboriginal Cultural Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare | Cultural Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding other countries

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