ABSTRACT
One of the ways to colonize a people is to control their ability to represent themselves. One of the ways to subvert colonization is to retain or recapture the process of representation, to set the scene for counter-hegemonic anti-colonial narratives. This chapter aims to contribute to the field of anti-colonial scholarship by exposing the relationship between Australian colonial knowledge and Australian colonial power, in and through sport. In Australian cultural life, sport has long held a reified standing. As a result sport has often escaped critical examination, and thus Australians have failed to see the extent to which it is socially conditioned and influenced by the political and economic power of the nation-state. The location of Indigenous people and sport in a historically and politically racialized context enables insights into the historical construction of dominance and the roles of political, economic and cultural institutions in society.
