Correct weight? analysing Australian football through a derivative global or cultural cringe model

The application of a 'global' model, in practice usually British or American, and generalised sociological concepts to a particular sport and its social and cultural context is not always appropriate. In Australian academia, the custom is particularly appealing, due to the Australian colonial 'cultural cringe', the pattern of automatic deference to overseas (termed 'international') knowledge. This article argues that 'Fresh Prince of Coloma! Dome: Indigenous Logic in the AFL' (Football Studies, 8(1), 2005) inappropriately applies American sociological, and American football, logic to the indigenous Australian game Australian football, which differs in character both as a game and in its social, cultural and political context. The three researchers do not take account of the factors of height and weight in Australian football, and the average size of Aboriginal players, and of the relationship between speed and strength in the game as strategies and tactics change. Both omissions constitute fundamental flaws. American football and sports sociology's ideas of 'central position theory', with a suggestion of underlying racism, is of limited relevance to Australian football. It is also possible that the American sitcom, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was neither a helpful muse nor a suitable metaphor for research into this subj ect. In Australian football, a game in which few 'central positions' are crucial and in which 'leadership positions' can be found in many parts of the ground, including the half-back flank and the wing, neither size nor position are the only major determinants of significance in the team.

Visionnaire 2011

Visionnaire : A screening of postgraduate and masters films

Play ‘Crack the Sky’ - Steffen Hagen
The Priest - Benjamin Engeset
Sitcom Idiots Inc. - Mitchell McTaggart
Playing for it - Jacinta Adams, Alex Dance, Simone Berman, Esteban Ulloa, James Westland & Jarrod Watters
The boy who lived in the cemetery - Kerina Pereira, Emma Robinson, Tim Mitchell, Helin Kusman & Rebecca Drought
A Burger too far - Scott Burgess, Rhys Salmon, Karina McCowan, Tom McCann, Michael Hales & Aidan Truscott
Crimson Drive - Samantha Kuruvita, Shaun McFadyen, Vegard Dahle, Anja Aasheim, Shehan Vestrheim & Mikael Skramesto
Mikael - Kathleen Lynch, David McKinnar, David Davey, Alex Voltz, Gavin Juchnevicius & Shannon McFarland
A Slight Case of Death - David Laub, Tian Zhang, Janine Evans, Josh Horeau, Jacobo Arenas & Ben Teychenne
Neil - Courtney Gardiner, Rebecca Jacobs, Mark D’Alessandro, Jacob Williams, Trygve Nordhammer & Paul Mooney
Little Donnie Berner - Louise Walsh, Bhare Kesmaei, Matthew Skibicki, Krister Svensli & Nicholas Issell
Intervention - Georgie Thomas, Allison Flanagan, Allison Erlanger, Fredrik Waldeland, Torkild Ziegler & Brad Smith
Vicissitudes - Ben Mix, Sinead Lau, Claire Patterson, Joel Buncle, James Magree & Thomas Boarder

Audience laughing

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