Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s 30s
This book examines Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia's Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections. The book challenges, and complicates, the broader historiography of Australia's Asian context; a historiography that has been strongly influenced by the White Australia Policy and the Pacific War. Why, for example, did White Australia so warmly welcome visiting Japanese sportsmen at a time when the Pacific region appeared to be inexorably sliding into a war that was informed by racial antagonisms?
This book examines sporting relations between Australia and seven Asian countries (China, Japan, India, Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Malaya and Singapore) and a range of sports including rugby, football, swimming, hockey, boxing, cricket and tennis.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Sean Brawley is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including The Bondi Lifesaver: History of an Australian Icon; Fighting Words: Competing Voices of the Pacific War; and, most recently, Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour.
Nick Guoth is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra.
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SPORT IN THE GLOBAL SOCIETY
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
AUSTRALIA'S ASIAN SPORTING CONTEXT, 1920S 30S
Sport in the Global Society Contemporary Perspectives
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society Series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.
Titles in the Series
Australian Sport
Antipodean Waves of Change
Edited by Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor
Australia's Asian Sporting Context
1920s and 1930s
Edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth
Critical Support for Sport
Bruce Kidd
Disability in the Global Sport Arena
A Sporting Chance
Edited by Jill M. Clair
Diversity and Division Race, Ethnicity and Sport in Australia
Christopher J. Hallinan
Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Edited by D. P. Martinez and Kevin Latham
Fan Culture in European Football and the Left
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
Bearing Light
John J. MacAloon
Football in Brazil
Edited by Martin Curi
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
Comparative Responses across Europe
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Football's Relationship with Art: The Beautiful Game?
John E. Hughson
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 19682008
To Remember is to Resist
Edited by Russell Field and Bruce Kidd
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Visualising the Game Edited by Susann Baller,
Giorgio Miescher and Raffaele Poli
Global Sport Business
Community Impacts of Commercial Sport
Edited by Hans Westerbeek
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships
The European Spectacle
Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Georg Spitaler
Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport
Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and Barry Judd
Olympic Reform Ten Years Later
Edited by Heather Dichter and Bruce Kidd
Perspectives on Sport and Music
Edited by Anthony Bateman
Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport
Walking the Line
Joseph Maguire
Soccer in the Middle East
Edited by Issam Khalidi and Alon Raab
