Running Race Reconciliation, Nationalism and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

作者: Catriona Elder , Angela Pratt , Cath Ellis

DOI: 10.1177/1012690206075420

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摘要: This article examines how the idea of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians became entwined with Sydney 2000 Olympics. It does this by undertaking a critical reading media stories on twin issues Cathy Freeman’s 400 m race, fear protest disrupting games. We argue Olympic Games helped to reinforce discourse that best suited peoples, came be represented as space where could should take place. that, in combination nationalist stories, impending were deployed way disciplining people maintaining particularly conservative understanding reconciliation; one did little change unequal power relations peoples.

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