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Disability and humour: enlightening others about the disability experience

Janine Natalya Clark
December 2, 2022

Anyone with a disability can hopefully use humour. Not because they feel a need to ‘fit in’, to educate others or to raise societal awareness, but simply because they want to. 

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Indigenous Australians’ footballing journey to Brazil: a pedagogy of courage against racism

Jorge Knijnik Jane Hunger
October 23, 2022

An excursion of young Aboriginal footballers from Australia to the Brazil provides critical insight into how sports education programs can improve participants’ voices and agency.

Ethics/Philosophy/Sports science

Sportswashing and the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup

Alfred Archer Kyle Fruh Jake Wojtowicz
October 10, 2022

We argue that Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup is a means by which the country is 'sportwashing'. That is, directing attention away from its moral transgressions.

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