Australasia will host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: What’s not to like?

Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand have won the right to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. In the middle of a global pandemic, sport in both countries surely has something to celebrate.

All sport is global: A hard lesson from the pandemic

It has taken the wicked problem of a hyper-contagious virus emerging in East Asia and passing rapidly around the world to demonstrate the vulnerability of sport’s global system of just-in-time, continuous production.

The game is changing, baby: Chris Gayle and sexism in cricket

West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle has been fined A$10,000 by his club for "inappropriate conduct" after he asked TV journalist Mel McLaughlin for a date in a live interview. Professor for Cultural Research David Rowe says there is still considerable resistance to the full integration of women into sport culture, and not least in the sports media.

A Nation of “Good Sports”‘? Cultural Citizenship and Sport in Contemporary Australia

The national government and its agencies tend uncritically to reproduce the mythology of universal Australian love of sport. David Rowe is head of a project in ethnically diverse Greater Western Sydney, exploring if it still can be assumed that sport plays a unifying role in this country.