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.
The intersectional nature of discrimination in sport
The 6th Annual Sport & Discrimination Conference.
By inviting presentations from academics, students, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of backgrounds and specialisms, relating to sports and/or discrimination, the sixth annual Sport and Discrimination Conference examines the intersectional nature of discrimination in sport. This one-day conference will embrace a broad focus, which sheds a light on belonging, identity, and exclusion within sport and the sport media.