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Presentation
The 6th International Sport & Discrimination Conference
The Intersectional Nature of Discrimination in Sport
  • Jeremi Duru, American University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2023
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.

Citation Information
Jeremi Duru. "The 6th International Sport & Discrimination Conference" The Intersectional Nature of Discrimination in Sport (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeremi-duru/311/