Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front

Racialized organizations, strategies, and structures: a case study

“…While Ray's (2019) theorization centers on the US context, our focus on a specific American sports case has global applicability. In the increasingly interconnected sports industry, scholars must acknowledge the impact of Western colonialism informed by White supremacist logic (Chen, 2023). Whole regions experienced the forceful removal of indigenous populations by European colonizers.…”

Wrestling With the Academy: Future Directions for the Cultural Politics of Sport

“…While we reject this premise-that a physical "cultural" approach has in some way diminished the ostensibly more legitimate sociological or management-based approaches-we acknowledge the reality that cultural scholars of sport will likely need to embed themselves in sport management departments in order to stay in academia. Without diminishing exemplary instances of critical sport management scholarship (Chardovahli & McLeod, 2022;Chen, 2023;Cooper, 2019;Hawzen et al, 2018;Newman, 2014;Newman & Giardina, 2010), we do have concerns about how the emergent hegemony of this field will require us to discipline our research profiles to fit the sport management mold, at the expense of an explicitly cultural-political approach. If the 1990s were marked by a turn to the body (Ingham, 1997), our time now is marked by a turn to bodies-formally organized bodies and institutions of sport, that is.…”

“Futures—Past,” A Reflection of 40 Years of the Sociology of Sport Journal: An Introduction

“…Importantly, "Global North" sport sociology must caution against the inducement of riding on the "diversity," "inclusion," and an eviscerated version of identity politics or "intersectionality" bandwagon designed by and for capital: Never equate radical/ revolutionary politics with "diverse" identity; understand, deeply engage with, but never uncritically fetishize individual experience as if it guarantees the authenticity of knowledge (Adams, 1989;Aguilar, 2015;Taylor, 2016Taylor, , 2023. There is also an urgent need to strengthen the organizing efforts around the precarity of academic labor, particularly in building solidarities with temporary faculties, and graduate student workers, and connecting these struggles with the broader efforts outside the academy in building an internationalist, anti-imperialist (eco)socialist movement (Chen, 2023a).…”

“…2. For example, as I asked elsewhere (Chen, 2023a): Why wasn't there a collective call for boycotting U.S. athletes and teams at the dawn of the Iraq War in 2003, or prohibiting all British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch athletes/teams for all the incalculable colonial crimes and damages?…”