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LECTURES

Weds 4-5 pm 260-005 (OGGB 005)

Fri 10-11 am 106-204 (Biology 204)

 

TUTORIAL

311 F 3-4 pm 273-104 (Fale – Office Building, Rm. 104)

211 F 4-5 pm 114-G17 (Commerce A, Rm G17)

 

  

Course Convenor:   Dr. Lisa Uperesa

373 3577 extn 84291

l.uperesa@auckland.ac.nz

Office: Room 102J Centre for Pacific Studies, Building 273

Office Hours: T 3-4 and by appointment, Building 273 Room 108

 

 

Course Tutor:          Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo

tarisi.vunidilo@auckland.ac.nz

373 3577 extn 84994

Office: Room 273 Centre for Pacific Studies, Building 273

Office Hour: Tuesday 2-3pm

 

 

Course Description

Sport has profoundly impacted Pacific peoples and cultures, playing critical roles in everything from colonialism and education in the past, to migration and commercialization in the present. Sport has changed and has been changed by Pacific cultures. In this course, Pacific cultural encounters with globalization, race, capitalism, gender, migration and public discourse will be explored through the experience of sport.

 

Selected weekly topics include:

 

  • Changes in Sport Culture: From Traditional Pacific ‘Games’ to Modern Sport
  • Pacific Islanders, Sport and Colonialism
  • Muscular Christianity: Pacific Sport, Religion and Missionaries
  • Mediated Images of Pacific Sportsmen
  • Sport and Indigenous Masculinities
  • Nafanua’s Rebirth: Pacific Women in Sport
  • Pacific Sport and Racialization
  • Sports and Identity
  • Sports and Sexualities

 

Teaching approach

The course will be led by the course convenor, but will have guest lecturers to enhance the course content. The course delivery will include lectures, tutorials, films and online interactive elements. Tutorials are compulsory and students are strongly advised to attend lectures. 

 

Readings will be available on Talis.

 

Canvas

The course makes extensive use of Canvas, the University of Auckland’s own web-based information system.  The URL is: https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz. You should be able to log into Canvas for all your classes: if you cannot, please contact your tutor immediately for course information.  Be sure you can log onto Canvas.  This will be necessary for successful completion of this course.   Be sure to set your Canvas settings so that you receive announcements and communications from the course convenor.

 

Help with Canvas can be obtained from the Canvas Support Hotline (phone: 0800 001 469).  You can also visit https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/learning-and-teaching/CanvasHomepage/canvas-help---support.html for more information.

 

 

ASSESSMENT

 

Pacific 211 Assessment.

Coursework: 60%

 

  • Autobiographical Essay: 5% (500-750 words)
  • Book Review: 10% (1,000 words)
  • Group project Report and Presentation: 20% (1,500 words for report; 10-15 minute presentation or audiovisual media)
    • Presentations in tutorial and lecture will be scheduled.
  • Sport/Community Critical Analysis Essay including 1-page proposal: 15% (1,500 words)
  • Tutorial participation and assignments: 10%

2 hour Final Exam: 40%

 

  

Pacific 311 Assessment.

Pacific 311 will have additional readings, will meet separately in a tutorial, and has different assessments.

Coursework: 100%

 

  • Autobiographical Essay: 10% (750-1,000 words)
  • Media Analysis: 15% (1,500 words)
  • Group Project Report and Presentation: 25% (1,500-2,000 words for report; 10-15 minute presentation or audiovisual media)
    • Presentations in tutorial and lecture will be scheduled.
  • Research Essay Proposal and Bibliography: 10% (750 words)
  • Research Essay: 30% (2,500-3,000 words)
  • Tutorial participation and assignments: 10%

 

 

CLASS SCHEDULE

 

 

WARMUP

0.1

Wed  8 March

Introduction: Critical Pacific Studies, Critical Sport.

0.2

Fri 10 March

Changes in Sport Culture: From Traditional Pacific ‘Games’ to Modern Sport

Reading 211/311: Brij V. Lal and Kate Fortune. ‘Sports and Games’ in The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. University of Hawaii Press, 2000, 455-63.

Reading 311: Augustin Krämer, ‘Games and Sports’, The Samoa Islands: Material Culture. Vol. 2. University of Hawaii Press, 1994, 381-90.

Reading 311: Nendel J (2009). Surfing in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i: The Appropriation of a Transcendent Experience to Competitive American Sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26 (16), 2432-46.

First Half

KICKOFF

1.1

Wed 15 March

Playing the Game: Pacific Islanders, Sport and Colonialism

Reading 211/311: Fa'anofo Lisa Uperesa and Tom Mountjoy. "Global Sport in the Pacific: A Brief Overview." The Contemporary Pacific 26, no. 2 (2014): 263-279.

Reading 311: Besnier, Niko. "Sports, Bodies, and Futures: An Epilogue." The Contemporary Pacific 26, no. 2 (2014): 435-444.

1.2

Fri 17 March

Salesa

Muscular Christianity: Pacific Sport, Religion and Missionaries

Reading 211/311: Michael Perelman and Vincent Portillo, ‘The Brutal Legacy of the Muscular Christian Movement’, Counterpunch.org. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/09/the-brutal-legacy-of-the-muscular-christian-movement/

Reading 211/311: J.C. Smith ed. ‘Muscular Christianity’, Men and masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia." (2004): 557-8.

1.3

Wed 22 March

Salesa

Moana Adventures: Ancient and Contemporary Pacific Voyaging

Reading 211/311: Finney, B. and Low, S. (2006) ‘Navigation’, In Vaka Moana. Voyages of the Ancestors. The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific, Auckland, Auckland War Memorial Museum, pp. 155–197.    

***Pacific 211/311 Autobiographical Essays Due in hard copy in lecture***

1.4

Fri 24 March

“What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”

Reading 211/311: Sacks, Benjamin. “A Footnote to Sports History.” Forthcoming in the International Journal for the History of Sport.

1.5

Wed 29 March

Man Up! Sport, Race, and Indigenous Masculinities

Reading 211/311: Hokowhitu, Brendan. “Tackling Maori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport.” The Contemporary Pacific 16, no. 2 (2004): 259-284.

Reading 311: Fitzpatrick, Katie. "Brown bodies, racialisation and physical education." Sport, Education and Society 18, no. 2 (2013): 135-153.

1.6

Fri 31 March

Man Up! Mediated Images of Pacific Sportsmen

Reading 211/311: Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika, and Jesse Makani Markham. "Performing Polynesian Masculinities in American Football: From ‘Rainbows to Warriors’." The International Journal of the History of Sport 26, no. 16 (2009): 2412-2431.

1.7

Wed 5 April

Marketing Sex and Sexualities

Reading 211/311: Fink, J. S. 2012. Homophobia and the marketing of female athletes and women's sport. In: Cunningham, G. B. (ed.) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Sport: Essays from Activists, Coaches, and Scholars. Texas: The Center for Sport Management Research and Education, 49-60.

 Reading 211/311: Diaz, Vicente. “Tackling Pacific Hegemonic Formations on the American Gridiron.” Amerasia 37, no. 3 (2011): 90-113.

1.8

Fri 7 April

Vunidilo

Nafanua’s Rebirth: Pacific Women in Sport

Reading 211/311: Schaaf R M. Pacific Island Women, Body Image and Sport.  World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education: New Horizons of Knowledge, 2005 Hamilton, New Zealand. University of Otago, 1-9.

Reading 211/311: Hancock M G, Lyras A and Ha J-P (2013). Sport for Development Programs for Girls and Women: A Global Assessment. Journal of Sport for Development, 1 (1), 15-24.

Wed 12 April

Game Film: Polynesian Power

 ***Pacific 211 Book Review due***

***Pacific 311 Media Analysis due***

Half-time

MID-SEMESTER BREAK 14 April – 29 April

Second Half

DOWN TO THE WIRE

2.1

Wed 3 May

Salesa

The Banana Kick: Sports and Identity I

Reading 211/311: Lakisa D, Adair D and Taylor T (2014). Pasifika Diaspora and the Changing Face of Australian Rugby League. The Contemporary Pacific, 26 (2), 347-67.

Reading 311: Schaff, M (2006). Elite Pacific Male Rugby Players’ Perceptions and Experiences of Professional Rugby. Junctures 7 (Dec), 41-54.

Suggested:

Reading 211/311: Dewey Jr, Robert F. "Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA): Rugby in ‘our sea of islands’." The International Journal of the History of Sport 31, no. 11 (2014): 1406-1420.

 

Fri 5 May

 Research Workshop @ Fale Computer Lab

2.2

Wed 10 May

Samoan Migration and Mobility in American Sport

Reading 211/311: Uperesa, Fa’anofo L. “Fabled Futures: Migration and Mobility for Samoans in American Football.” The Contemporary Pacific 26, no 2 (2014): 281-301.

 

**Pacific 211 Sport/Community Critical Analysis Essay 1-page Proposals Due***

2.3          

Fri 12 May

Physical Condition: Sport, Diaspora, and Pacific Bodies

Reading 211/311: McDonald, Brent, and Lena Rodriguez. "‘It's our meal ticket’: Pacific bodies, labour and mobility in Australia." Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3, no. 3 (2014): 236-249.

Reading 311: Uperesa, Fa’anofo L. “Mobility, Sports, and ‘Gridiron Capital’: Samoan Players in American Football.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings (2013).

Suggested:

Reading 211/311: Horton P (2012). Pacific Islanders in Global Rugby: The Changing Currents of Sports Migration. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 29 (17), 2388-404.

 

**Pacific 311 Research Proposal and Bibliography Due**

Wed 17 May

In Football We Trust Part 1

Fri 19 May

In Football We Trust Part 2

**Group Project Reports Due**

Wed 24 May

PAC 311 Presentations CANCELLED

Fri 26 May

PAC 211 Presentations - Groups 1, 4, 5 (Coach Carter)

Wed 31 May

PAC 211 Presentations - Groups 2, 3, 6 (All Others)

2.4

Fri 2 June

Game, Set, Match: The Impact of Sports Injuries

Reading 211/311: Lagolago W, Theadom A, Fairburn-Dunlop P, Ameratunga S, Dowell A, McPherson K, Te Ao B, Starkey N and Feigin VL (2015). Traumatic Brain Injury within Pacific People of New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128 (1142), 29-38.

Reading 211/311: “Family Heirlooms: A Pacific Islander Legacy in the NFL” http://www.thewhatitdo.com/2016/01/30/football-heirlooms-a-pacific-islander-legacy-in-the-nfl/

Reading 311: Berg, E. C., et al. (2014). "Female football players, the sport ethic and the masculinity-sport nexus." Sport in Society 17(2): 176-189.

Suggested:

Reading 311: Crampton J (2014). Depression in Elite Athletes: Are We Doing Enough? Sport Health, 32 (3), 45-53.

2.5

Wed 7 June

Football and Faasamoa: Sports and Identity II and Class Wrap Up

NFL Films “Troy Polamalu visits American Samoa”

***Pacific 211 Sport/Community Critical Analysis Essays Due***

Wed 14 June

***Pacific 311 Final Essays Due***

 

An exam preparation class will be scheduled in the study break.

Mon 3 July

211 Final Exam, Start time 14:15

Course summary:

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