This course explores the evolution of sport and physical culture in the post-9/11 era. Drawing largely from post-colonial, critical race, and feminist theories, we will examine how contemporary renditions of sport have emerged alongside and been shaped by the continuing global war on terrorism. Topics covered in the course include, but are not limited to, the burgeoning area of sport-for-deradicalization; the relationship between sport, the increasingly paranoid security state and the surveillance industrial complex; and the mainstreaming of drone usage in the West. We will interrogate how these issues are buttressed by past and present colonial processes that disproportionately impact populations of colour both domestically and abroad.

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