TY - JOUR
T1 - Empowering indigenous networks
T2 - collaborative governance and the development of a Racial Vilification Code in the Australian Football League
AU - Frost, Lionel
AU - Van Dijk, Pieter
AU - Kirk-Brown, Andrea
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Few Indigenous Australians played Australian Rules football at the elite level before the 1980s. As the number of Indigenous players increased, a network of those who refused to accept on-field racial vilification developed. Opportunities for change were also seized by the Australian Football League, through a collaborative governance approach that empowered Indigenous players to inform strategies for reconciliation and education, and the development of anti-vilification rules. The case provides information about how governance structures may generate resources that improve socio-economic outcomes for indigenous and other disadvantaged people.
AB - Few Indigenous Australians played Australian Rules football at the elite level before the 1980s. As the number of Indigenous players increased, a network of those who refused to accept on-field racial vilification developed. Opportunities for change were also seized by the Australian Football League, through a collaborative governance approach that empowered Indigenous players to inform strategies for reconciliation and education, and the development of anti-vilification rules. The case provides information about how governance structures may generate resources that improve socio-economic outcomes for indigenous and other disadvantaged people.
KW - Australian Rules football
KW - collaborative governance
KW - Indigenous Australians
KW - institutional entrepreneur
KW - racism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104715743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09523367.2021.1895759
DO - 10.1080/09523367.2021.1895759
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104715743
SN - 0952-3367
VL - 38
SP - 472
EP - 491
JO - The International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - The International Journal of the History of Sport
IS - 5
ER -