https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5693?type=CORECourse DescriptionThis course examines the politics of sport, focusing on imperialism, colonialism, race, gender, nationalism, and queerness. It is organised around three themes: 1) sport as a site of oppression and resistance; 2) race, gender, nationalism, and intersectionality in sporting practices; and 3) the body, sex, and the "natural athlete". The course examines how sport functions as a terrain of power, identity, and counter-hegemony.Through case studies such as colonial cricket, global mega-events, diasporic communities, queer and trans representation, disability and technology, and the cultural politics of combat sports, we analyse how sporting cultures reproduce and challenge dominant ideas about nation, race, gender, sexuality, and class.Drawing on feminist, queer, transfeminist, Marxist, and post- and decolonial scholarship, students will interrogate sex segregation, the construction of the "natural athlete," nationalist logics of representation, and the political economy of global sport. Sport is approached both as a reflection of social structures and as a powerful arena of struggle over identity, belonging, exclusion, and empowerment.