{"title":"“I feel more Canadian with hockey.” Identity and Belonging via Ice Hockey in a Diverse Canada","authors":"Lloyd L. Wong, Martine Dennie","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the relationship between the participation in organized ice hockey by immigrants and racialized minorities (compared to those born in Canada and who are white) and their sense of national identity and sense of belonging to Canada. A Bourdieusian theoretical framework is utilized to conceptualize hockey in terms of a field, habitus, and cultural and symbolic capital. The argument is made that hockey is Janus-faced and a contested terrain with a tension between exclusion and inclusion whereby human agency is vitally important. Yet the hockey arena and engagement in the game, either as players or fans or in some other capacity, provides a multicultural common space potentially enabling an interactive pluralism amongst diverse communities. The data are derived from qualitative semi-structured interviews with hockey players, fans and key informants in Calgary and Toronto. Overall, the findings show that for most immigrants and racialized minorities engaged in organized ice hockey, there is more likely a sense of Canadian national identity and a sense of belonging to Canada compared to the Canadian-born and to whites. These findings further add to the value of making hockey more inclusive via equity, diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives.Résumé:Cet article explore la relation entre la participation au hockey sur glace organisé par des immigrants et minorités raciales (comparé avec ceux qui sont nés au Canada et qui sont blancs) ainsi que leur sens d’identité nationale et leur sens d’appartenance au Canada. Utilisant les théories de Bourdieu pour conceptualiser le hockey en termes d’un champ social, habitus, et capital culturel et symbol-ique. L’argument est fait que le hockey est un terrain contesté et il est en conflit avec un aspect d’exclusion et d’inclusion où l’action humaine est d’une importance vitale. Pourtant, l’arène de hockey et l’engagement dans le jeu, soit comme joueur ou admirateur, fournissent un espace commun multiculturel qui peut également promouvoir un pluralisme interactif parmi les diverses communautés. Les données sont dérivées des entrevues qualitatives semi-structurées avec des joueurs de hockey, des admirateurs de hockey et des informateurs clés à Calgary et Toronto. En tout, les résultats démontrent que pour la plupart des immigrants et minorités raciales qui sont engagés dans le hockey organisé, leur sens d’identité nationale et sens d’appartenance au Canada est plus fort par rapport à ceux qui sont nés au Canada et ceux qui sont blancs. Les résultats démontrent davantage la valeur rattachée au besoin de faire le hockey plus inclusif à travers des politiques et initiatives touchant à l’équité, la diversité, et l’inclusion.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45626641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rocket, the Riot, and the Revolution: Hockey in French Canada","authors":"John Valentine, Brandon Toal","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hockey has historically occupied an important place in the lives of many Canadians, and this interest is particularly strong in French Canada. The Montreal Canadiens team aligned itself closely with the francophone community by utilizing primarily French-Canadian players and featuring a team name that reflected French-Canadian culture. The team, and the sport, were used to challenge the history of humiliation French Canadians had experienced at the hands of the English. During the Second World War, the team signed a new French-Canadian star. In his first full season, Maurice Richard led the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup championship. In his next season, he broke the goal-scoring record. Richard quickly became an icon and political symbol representing French-Canadian nationalism. League commissioner Clarence Campbell, an Oxford-educated, English Canadian, often disciplined the fiery Quebecer. To many French Quebecers, these interactions with Campbell represented another example of English Canada’s dominance over French Canada. Despite their majority status, francophones in Quebec had higher levels of poverty and unemployment, and fewer management positions. In 1955, after an altercation with a referee, Richard was suspended by Commissioner Campbell. Riots erupted in the streets of Montreal, and Quebec society was changed forever.The focus of this research is on hockey in Quebec from its earliest days until the 1960s when Rocket Richard had retired and the number of Quebec-born players on the Montreal Canadiens started to decline (Whitehouse 2010). The importance of hockey in Quebec will be viewed through the lens of English colonization, but we will also focus on Quebec in the 1960s and the societal shifts that resulted in the Quiet Revolution and the separatist movement. While the relationship Quebec had with both hockey and the Montreal Canadiens changed after the 1960s, the passion Quebecers display for the game continued. However, hockey was no longer necessary to provide empowerment to a disempowered people.Résumé:Le hockey a toujours occupé une place importante dans la vie de nombreux Canadiens, et cet intérêt est particulièrement fort au Canada français. L’équipe des Canadiens de Montréal s’est alignée sur la communauté francophone en utilisant principalement des joueurs canadiens-français et en présentant un nom d’équipe qui reflète la culture canadienne-française. L’équipe et le sport ont été utilisés pour défier l’histoire de l’humiliation que les Canadiens français avaient subie aux mains des Anglais. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’équipe a signé une nouvelle étoile canadienne-française. À sa première saison complète, Maurice Richard a mené les Canadiens au championnat de la Coupe Stanley. La saison suivante, il bat le record de buts. Richard est rapidement devenu une icône et un symbole politique représentant le nationalisme canadien-français. Le commissaire de la Ligue, Clarence Campbell, un Canadien anglais éduqué à Ox","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46843388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Pond to the Jumbotron: Affordances of Hockey as a Multicultural and Social Space","authors":"Howard Ramos, P. Bondy","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines how physical space shapes access to hockey arenas and participation in the game. Based on site observations and auto-ethnographic personal experience, this paper looks at how the concepts of ‘multicultural common space’ and ‘affordance’ can be used to better understand who participates in the sport and how space mediates participation in, and the imagination of, hockey and as an offshoot of Canadian identity. It uses the concept of ‘affordance’ to look at the opportunities people have to enter spaces and, in turn, the types of participation and interactions they have with hockey. More specifically, the paper explores if ‘hockey spaces’ are ‘multicultural spaces’ and, in turn, whether they are spaces that can foster shared identity and bonds. The paper examines ‘hockey spaces’ ranging from ‘the pond’ to the arena and all the way to the ‘jumbotron’ and discusses how specific hockey spaces shape who can participate in the game and how they can interact with others. The paper explores spaces as fields of interaction to understand the role that hockey plays in creating inclusive or prohibitive spaces for people from diverse backgrounds.Résumé:Cet article examine comment l’espace physique façonne l’accès aux arénas de hockey et la participation au match. Sur la base d’observations de sites et d’expériences personnelles auto-ethnographiques, cet article examine comment les concepts d’« espace commun multiculturel » et d’« accessibilité » peuvent être utilisés pour mieux comprendre qui participe au sport et comment l’espace intercède dans la participation et l’imagination du hockey et, en tant que ramification, l’identité canadienne. Il utilise le concept d’« accessibilité » pour évaluer les possibilités que disposent les gens pour entrer dans les espaces et, à leur tour, les types de participation et d’interactions qu’ils ont avec le hockey. Plus précisément, l’article explore si les « espaces de hockey » sont des « espaces multiculturels » et s’il s’agit d’espaces qui peuvent favoriser une identité et des accointances. L’article examine les « espaces de hockey » allant du « bassin » à l’aréna et jusqu’à « l’écran géant » et discute de la façon dont le hockey façonne spécifiquement ceux qui peuvent participer et comment ils peuvent interagir avec les autres. L’article aborde les espaces en tant que champs d’interaction pour comprendre le rôle que le hockey joue dans la création d’espaces inclusifs ou restrictifs pour les personnes de divers horizons.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43137228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who’s The North? The Challenge that Immigration and Diversity Present to the Dominance of Hockey in 21st Century Canada","authors":"Jack Jedwab, Paul Holley","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines how the growing diversity of Canada’s population has modified the viewership and participation in what is widely considered the country’s national sport: hockey. Using several quantitative sources, we contend that while hockey remains the country’s most popular sport, its domination is increasingly challenged by the attraction to soccer and basketball amongst the expanding numbers of Canadians of non-European origins. The paper also considers how the demographic shifts will influence the extent to which youth participation in hockey remains a key vector in promoting belonging to Canada. In this regard, we found that hockey is relatively unchallenged as the sport that contributes most to a stronger sense of local belonging amongst newcomers.Résumé:Ce article examine comment la diversité croissante de la population canadienne a modifié l’audience et la participation à ce qui est largement considéré comme le sport national du pays : le hockey. À l’aide de plusieurs sources quantitatives, nous soutenons que si le hockey reste le sport le plus populaire du pays, sa domination est de plus en plus contestée par l’attrait du football et du basket-ball parmi le nombre croissant de Canadiens d’origine non-européenne. Le document examine également comment les changements démographiques influenceront la mesure dans laquelle la participation des jeunes au hockey reste un vecteur clé de la promotion de l’appartenance au Canada. À cet égard, nous avons constaté que le hockey est relativement incontesté comme le sport qui contribue le plus à renforcer le sentiment d’appartenance locale chez les jeunes issu de l’immigration. À l’aide de plusieurs sources quantitatives, nous soutenons que si le hockey reste le sport le plus populaire du pays, sa domination est de plus en plus contestée par l’attrait du football et du basket-ball parmi le nombre croissant de Canadiens d’origine noneuropéenne. Le document examine également comment les changements démographiques influenceront la mesure dans laquelle la participation des jeunes au hockey reste un vecteur clé de la promotion de l’appartenance au Canada. À cet égard, nous avons constaté que le hockey est relativement incontesté comme le sport qui contribue le plus à renforcer le sentiment d’appartenance locale chez issus de l’immigration.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43418085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saara Liinamaa, Mervyn Horgan, Amanda Dakin, Sofia Meligrana, Meng Xu
{"title":"Everyday Multiculturalism on Ice: Observations from Hockey-free Outdoor Urban Public Ice Rinks","authors":"Saara Liinamaa, Mervyn Horgan, Amanda Dakin, Sofia Meligrana, Meng Xu","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hockey-loving Canadians sometimes forget that not all ice rinks permit hockey. This article examines such ice rinks as public sites for sociable interactions between strangers across social differences. Through naturalistic and participant observation, we report on two public outdoor city hall ice rinks in Southern Ontario (Toronto and Guelph), showing how these rinks are distinctive, heterogeneous public spaces that realize aspects of “unpanicked multiculturalism” (Noble 2009). Our findings document the many positive interactions amongst diverse users that grow out of recognizing and sharing in the pleasures and challenges of skating. We conclude by suggesting that hockey-free public rinks warrant further research, in particular (1) to examine the informal social regulation of identities, and (2) to understand the kinds of contact across social difference that they facilitate.Résumé:Les Canadiens admirateurs du hockey oublient parfois que toutes les patinoires n’adhèrent pas au hockey. Cet article analyse ces types de patinoires comme des sites publics pour les interactions sociables entre étrangers sous le prisme des différences sociales. À travers une observation naturaliste et participante, nous rapportons deux patinoires publiques extérieures de l’hôtel de ville dans le sud de l’Ontario (Toronto et Guelph), montrant comment ces patinoires sont des espaces publics distinctifs et hétérogènes qui pratiquent des aspects du « multiculturalisme sans panique » (Noble 2009). Nos résultats démontrent de nombreuses interactions positives entre divers utilisateurs qui découlent de la reconnaissance, du partage des plaisirs et des défis du patinage. Nous concluons en suggérant que les patinoires publiques sans hockey motivent des recherches plus approfondies, en particulier (1) pour examiner la régulation sociale informelle des identités et (2) pour comprendre les types de contact à travers la différence sociale qu’elles facilitent.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42064987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization: Developing an Indigenous Evaluation Model for Indigenous Youth Hockey in Canada","authors":"Janice Forsyth, Taylor McKee, A. Benson","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, maintain hegemonic systems because the ideological foundation that supports them ignores systemic racism and instead frames Indigenous people, communities, and cultures as being the source of their own problems. In 2018, our research began to explore what an Indigenous-led sport-for-development quantitative model might look like to counter the deficit perspective. We used the 2019 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) as our pilot. Established in 2002, the NAHC is an Indigenous-led event for under-18 male and female First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth throughout Canada. Our intent was to identify and articulate what makes the NAHC unique, other than it being run by Indigenous people for Indigenous youth. Key questions that guided our research included: what would Indigenous sport leaders want to know about their youth athletes? How would their interests in hockey align with and diverge from dominant mainstream interests? What would the data tell us? What depiction could we create about the athletes and the NAHC? Would that representation reinforce or challenge the deficit perspective, or would it be something altogether different? In this paper, we examine 1) how Indigenous development discourses have created an unequal playing field for Indigenous sport in Canada, 2) how quantitative methodologies reinforce unequal relations, 3) how hockey statistics diffuse the value of Indigenous quantitative methodologies for the NAHC, and 4) the possibilities and challenges of using quantitative methodologies to advance the NAHC specifically, and Indigenous sport more broadly, in Canada.Résumé:Les méthodologies quantitatives jouent un rôle essentiel, bien que souvent méconnues, dans l’implantation et le maintien de relations de pouvoir inégales au Canada. Ce déséquilibre de pouvoir est amplement apparent dans les initiatives autochtones de sport pour le développement, qui sont imprégnées de perspectives déficitaires qui produisent et accentuent la compréhension du dysfonctionnement autochtone. En conséquence, ces initiatives, peu importe à quel point elles sont formulées de manière positive ou à quel point les progrès sont notés, maintiennent des systèmes hégémoniques parce que le fondement idéologique qui les soutient ignore le racisme systémique et considère plutôt les peuples, les communautés et les cultures autochtones comme étant la source de leurs propres problèmes. En 2018, nos recherches ont commencé à explorer à quoi pour-rait ressembler un modèle quantitatif de sport pour le développement ","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45463142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Rink: Anti-Indigenous Discrimination Policies in Hockey","authors":"Marina Noce-Saporito","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although widely described as “Canada’s game,” hockey is not experienced universally across the country. In recent years, professional and amateur Indigenous hockey players have spoken publicly about the anti-Indigenous discrimination they have encountered in the sport and the lack of action taken by league officials to address it. Through an Indigenous Studies methodological lens, this article emphasizes the need to consider colonialism in hockey research and to demonstrate that existing anti-discrimination policies tend to reproduce colonial power dynamics in and beyond hockey. The article begins with a description of the policies and procedures for five minor hockey associations in Central Alberta. I will then highlight the gaps that exist within those policies and procedures that lead to incidents of anti-Indigenous discrimination not being handled in an appropriate manner. This article will demonstrate the need for inclusive and thoughtful policy-making process and concludes by identifying future directions for hockey policy research.Résumé:Bien que largement représenté comme le « jeu du Canada », le hockey n’est pas pratiqué partout dans le pays. Au cours des dernières années, des joueurs de hockey autochtones professionnels et amateurs ont témoigné publiquement de la discrimination anti-autochtone à laquelle ils se sont heurtés dans le jeu et du manque de mesures prises par les responsables de la ligue pour y remédier. À travers un regard méthodologique porté sur des études autochtones, cet article met l’accent sur la nécessité de considérer le colonialisme dans la recherche sur le hockey et de démontrer que les politiques anti-discrimination existantes ont tendance à reproduire la dynamique du pouvoir colonial au sein et au-delà du hockey. L’article commence par une description des politiques et procédures de cinq associations de hockey mineur du centre de l’Alberta. Je soulignerai ensuite les lacunes qui existent dans ces politiques et procédures qui conduisent à ce que les incidents de discrimination anti-autochtone ne soient pas traités de manière appropriée. Cet article démontrera la nécessité d’un processus d’élaboration de politiques inclusif et pondéré. L’article se conclut en identifiant les orientations futures de la recherche sur les politiques de hockey.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46207446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lloyd L. Wong, Martine Dennie, Eugene Arcand (Aski Kananumohwatah), Sam Mckegney, M. Auksi, Robert Henry, J. Koch, Mika Rathwell, Marina Noce-Saporito, Davina McLeod, B. Pardy, Janice Forsyth, Taylor McKee, A. Benson, Lisa Kaida, Peter Kitchen, Max Stick, Jack Jedwab, Paul Holley, Howard Ramos, P. Bondy, John Valentine, Brandon Toal, Saara Liinamaa, Mervyn Horgan, Amanda Dakin, Sofia Meligrana, Meng Xu
{"title":"Hockey in Canada: Indigeneity, Ethnic/Racialized Minorities and the Nation","authors":"Lloyd L. Wong, Martine Dennie, Eugene Arcand (Aski Kananumohwatah), Sam Mckegney, M. Auksi, Robert Henry, J. Koch, Mika Rathwell, Marina Noce-Saporito, Davina McLeod, B. Pardy, Janice Forsyth, Taylor McKee, A. Benson, Lisa Kaida, Peter Kitchen, Max Stick, Jack Jedwab, Paul Holley, Howard Ramos, P. Bondy, John Valentine, Brandon Toal, Saara Liinamaa, Mervyn Horgan, Amanda Dakin, Sofia Meligrana, Meng Xu","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On March 18th, 2019, settler scholar Sam McKegney and Anishinaabe scholar Mike Auksi conducted an interview with Eugene Arcand at Queen’s University’s Isabelle Bader Centre in Kingston, Ontario in the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Peoples. Arcand had travelled to Kingston to act as a Keynote Speaker the following day at the “Roundtable on Racism in Hockey.” On Arcand’s insistence that the efforts, experiences, and ideas of roundtable participants be honoured in ways that promote tangible change, the roundtable’s organizers Courtney Szto, Bob Dawson, McKegney, and Auksi distilled the event’s findings into the Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey, which has since been downloaded over 7,500 times. The interview below is supplemented by a brief excerpt from a recorded conversation McKegney had with Arcand, his wife Lorna, and Craig McCallum at the Arcands’ home on Whitecap Reserve in Saskatchewan in the Spring of 2019.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42934615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sam Mckegney, Robert Henry, J. Koch, Mika Rathwell
{"title":"Manufacturing Compliance with Anti-Indigenous Racism in Canadian Hockey: The Case of Beardy’s Blackhawks","authors":"Sam Mckegney, Robert Henry, J. Koch, Mika Rathwell","doi":"10.1353/ces.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interviews with Indigenous and settler players on the Beardy’s Blackhawks Midget AAA hockey team, as well as with those players’ parents, unanimously acknowledge racism directed at Indigenous players during the team’s most recent season. More insidiously, the interviews register social pressures within hockey culture that discourage reactions to such racism and thereby condition acquiescence to and potential reproduction of oppressive colonial conditions. As one First Nation parent states, “you just kind of get used to it and... either shrug it off or retaliate. We’ve really chosen to shrug it off for the most part.” This paper ruminates on the manufacture of compliance in order to interrogate the internalization of various tropes in hockey culture that, we argue, conspire to sustain racialized oppression in the game. In doing so, we advocate for the implementation of decolonial anti-racism strategies at all levels of the sport.Résumé:Des entrevues avec des joueurs autochtones et allogènes du club de hockey Beardy’s Blackhawks Midget AAA, ainsi qu’avec les parents de ces joueurs, reconnaissent unanimement le racisme envers les joueurs autochtones au cours de la dernière saison de l’équipe. Plus insidieusement, les entrevues enregistrent des pressions sociales au sein de la culture du hockey qui découragent les réactions à un tel racisme et conditionnent ainsi l’acquiescement et la regénénération potentielle des conditions coloniales oppressives. Comme le dit un parent authochtone, « on s’y habitue en quelque sorte et... soit on l’ignore, soit on riposte. Nous avons vraiment choisi de ne pas en tenir compte pour la plupart. » Cet article retourne la question du façonnage de la conformité dans le but de scruter l’inhérence, de divers clichés dans la culture du hockey qui, selon nous, conspirent pour soutenir l’oppression racialisée dans le match. Ce faisant, nous plaidons pour la mise en œuvre de stratégies antiracistes décoloniales à tous les niveaux du sport.","PeriodicalId":55968,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques au Canada","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47765620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}