Episode 34 – Sport–Nation–Region: Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Oceania

Panel presentation from the 70th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference (May 2020). Also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRoTTRUJplQ&feature=youtu.be This panel of scholars from Australia and New Zealand uses the sport-nation-region nexus to identify the contested meanings and politics of sport and media in Oceania, and discusses why sporting cultures and media work, in different ways, to connect, include and exclude citizens in this part of the world. Features David Rowe (Western Sydney University), Toni Bruce (University of Auckland), Bevan Erueti (Massey University), Holly Thorpe and Nida Ahmad (University of Waikato) and Brett Hutchins (Monash University).