"Permission to speak". A postcolonial view on racialized bodies and PE in the current context of globalization.

Autor/in	Azzarito, Laura
Titel	"Permission to speak". A postcolonial view on racialized bodies and PE in the current context of globalization. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: "Die Erlaubnis zu sprechen". Eine postkoloniale Sichtweise zu rassifizierten Körpern und Sportunterricht im derzeitigen Kontext der Globalisierung.
Quelle	In: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 87 (2016) 2, S. 141-150 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367; 2168-3824
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2016.1166474
Schlagwörter	Stereotyp; Identität; Ethnizität; Soziale Norm; Massenmedien; Bildungspolitik; Unterrichtsmethode; Diskriminierung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Fitnesstest; Sportpädagogik; Sportsoziologie; Sportunterricht; Globalisierung; Körperbild; Standardisierung; Minderheit; USA
Abstract	The current neoliberal context of schools presents difficult challenges in addressing persistent issues of social inequalities. In this article, first, I argue that because of today's market-driven education, the rise of fitness testing in school physical education (PE) can be seriously detrimental to young people in general and to ethnic-minority young people's embodied identity in particular. Second, I explain how the racialization process circulated by the body-at-risk discourse, sustained by the media, and reproduced by high-stakes testing in PE forces ethnic-minority young people to construct their identities through White eyes, which alienates them from a consciousness of their own identity. Third, I explore the possible uses and pitfalls of Spivak's theoretical notion of "strategic essentialism" to put forward strategies to build a positive image of the "other" while attempting to avoid the erasure of difference. Fourth, I conclude the article by suggesting how Spivak's notion of strategic essentialism can be useful in rethinking current PE fitness practices. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2017/2