ABSTRACT
Sport in the Pacific, as the contributions to this issue cannot be understood without a thorough understanding of imperialism and its lasting impacts. Importantly, in the wake or the Second World War and quickened by freedom struggles locally and globally, a decolonial moment opened and with it the possibilities of sport changed radically. Across Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the United States, sport played a key role in causing this break and in the manner that native and settler communities would work to come to terms with it. The experiences of Aboriginal Australians and Polynesians should remind us that sport, far from fixed, is best understood in motion. Exploring the importance of migrations, transfers, and crossings, the contributors have nicely documented the ways practices and people move through force fields, often taking on new meaning or making claims to novel identities in the process.
