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Let’s Make Baseball! Practices of Unsettling on the Recreational Ball Diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto
From: Decolonizing Sport
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This chapter examines how sport operates as a rarefied cultural symbol in North American society to stabilize settler identity. The colonial history of the sport is discussed as well as how it continues to perpetuate colonial values.
Contributors
Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings
Janice Forsyth is a member of the Fisher River Cree First Nation and a professor in the Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia. She is a recognized leader in Indigenous sport development in Canada. Her research has generated significant national and international attention among scholars and practitioners, and several of her studies are included in the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2017, she was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to research and advocacy.