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Settler Colonialism, Sport, and Recreation interrogates the interconnections between settler colonialism and sport, recreation, and physical activity, theorizing sport as a site of ongoing colonial violence and a vital space of resistance, refusal, and reterritorialization. Laurendeau explains that settler colonialism is not a relic of the past moment but an ongoing genocidal project in still-settling states as they perpetually work to claim ownership of and authority over stolen lands as part of a project of capital accumulation. Moreover, Laurendeau highlights settler colonialism is a fundamentally relational project, structuring the lives not only of Indigenous peoples but of all who live in occupied territories. Drawing primarily but not exclusively on examples unfolding on lands claimed by Canada, Laurendeau explains that sport and recreation constitute a critical cultural space that produces and/or challenges ideas about bodies, relationships, belonging, nationhood, sovereignty, and more.

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Jason (Jay) Laurendeauis is a white settler scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, located on the lands of the Siksikaitsitapii people. His research interests lie at the intersections of sport and physical culture, settler colonialism, gender, and childhood. His work has appeared in such venues as the Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, and Emotion, Space & Society. He is also the author of Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography: Stories and Ways of Being.

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