Not sporting: Australian identity, the power of the average, and the fear of the (disabled) Other within.

摘要: Recent remarks on Australian radio suggest the power of average in day-today identity remains potent. This paper analyses genesis this reliance ‘man street’ and argues that not only is bloke decidedly male white, he anything but natural. Instead a statistical norm, an icon behind which fear ‘Other within’ hides. National types were themselves ideological requirements of, for, political consolidations nineteenth century. They also intimately tied to new distance-defying technologies telephone, cinema, railway radio. With (intellectual) disability, as ‘tool analysis’ similar ‘race’, ‘gender’, ‘sexuality’, for disruption superficial homogeneity type, reveals its dependent relationship with concept measurable intelligence, interpretations natural selection eugenic notions around fitness. finishes proposing further analysis ‘within-race’ discrimination essential any truly diverse ‘sporting’ society.