This inquiry provides an opportunity to identify the direction of change in Australian national culture at a time when globalisation is intensifying, and global media - including global sports media – are increasingly available to people irrespective of where they live. It focuses on the nation's most dynamic and diverse metropolitan region, Greater Western Sydney, exploring the extent of sport-related belonging, affinity and expression in an era of accelerating global change. But the established relationship between sport and nation is undergoing significant change in contemporary multicultural Australia.įocussing principally on sport participation and spectatorship, the aim of this project is to achieve an advanced understanding of sport's place in the lives of Australia's increasingly diverse citizenry.
Sport has an elevated place in Australia's official and popular national culture, and its reputation as a 'paradise of sport' has become a largely unquestioned aspect of Australian identity. It will advance conceptual and empirical understanding of the constituents of national sports culture and contribute to academic, policy and public debates surrounding Australia's sport and media systems, and the uses and meanings of sport among Australia's diverse citizenry.Īustralia is widely regarded as both characterised and united by sport. This project reconsiders Australia's oft-remarked sporting 'obsession' in this dynamic context and its implications for cultural citizenship in the construction of (trans)national identities and affinities. But sport's relationship to national culture is changing in response to shifts in both sporting participation and embodied/mediated spectatorship, and in the nation itself.
Sport is regarded, officially and popularly, as both characterising and uniting Australians. Migrant Civic Practice in Times of Crisis Symposiumįunding: Australian Research Council (opens in a new window), Discovery Project.
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