The 6th International Sport & Discrimination Conference

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2023

Conference / Event Title

The Intersectional Nature of Discrimination in Sport

Conference / Event Location

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sponsorship

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Hosting Organization

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract

Discrimination is a complex issue and this conference attempts to showcase how intersectionality can be used as a conceptual framework to explore and understand human experiences within sport. For Lind (2010: 3), intersectionality is “a multi-faceted perspective acknowledging the richness of the multiple socially-constructed identities that combine each of us as a unique individual.” Our identity markers therefore culminate to help shape our journey’s, experiences, and successes/failures within sport, and society. Anderson and Hill Collins (2010: 5) add, “At any moment, race, class, or gender may feel more salient or meaningful in a given person's life, but they are overlapping and cumulative in their effect on people's experience.” This conference thus intends to investigate how our identity markers including ‘race’, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, among others, operate within sport.

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