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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:19.0pt;line-height:31.05pt"><b><span style="font-size:31.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#363C41">Sport, Masculinity, and Neoliberalism:
</span></b><span class="A2"><span style="font-size:26.0pt">Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, and Senegalese Wrestlers
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<p class="Default" style="line-height:20.05pt"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#95B0BE">Thursday 26 October 3:00pm – 5.00pm
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:2.0pt;line-height:12.05pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:windowtext">Speaker
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<p class="Pa6"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#211D1E">Professor Niko Besnier
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<p class="Pa7" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#211D1E">University of Amsterdam Editor, American Ethnologist
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<p class="Pa6"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#211D1E">Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1
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<p class="Pa7" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#211D1E">Hedley Bull Building #130 Garren Road, ANU
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<p class="Pa6"><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2017-10-26/sport-masculinity-and-neoliberalism-cameroonian-footballers-fijian-rugby"><span style="font-weight:normal">Event website</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#1F5D9F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa5" style="margin-bottom:2.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#95B0BE">Enquiries
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<p class="Pa6"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#211D1E">E admin.chl@anu.edu.au
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<p class="Pa7" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><span class="A8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This lecture is free and open to the public
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<p class="Pa8" style="margin-top:5.0pt"><span class="A9"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In the Global South since the 1980s, as economic downturns under pressure from the forces of neoliberalism have eroded social relations and pauperized populations, sport
and athletes’ bodies have become major focus of attention in many countries, offering promises of a better future that lies elsewhere. These dynamics have occurred as global sport industries have become commoditized, mediatized, and corporatized, transformations
that have been spearheaded by the growing importance of privatized media interests. In Cameroon, Fiji, and Senegal, athletic hopefuls prospectively embody new gendered subjectivities in hope of marketing their athletic talent in these industries, which take
the form of new religious convictions such as Pentecostalism and maraboutism and transform the constitution of masculinity.
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<p class="Default" style="margin-top:5.0pt;line-height:10.55pt"><span class="A9"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">Niko Besnier
</span></b></span><span class="A9"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Editor-in-Chief of American Ethnologist. In 2011, he was awarded a five-year Advanced Grant from the
European Research Council for a project titled Globalization, Sports, and the Precarity of Masculinity. He is the author and editor of many influential volumes including Literacy, Emotion and Authority (Cambridge, 1995), Gossip and the Everyday Production
of Politics (Hawai’i, 2009), On the Edge of the Global (Stanford, 2011), and Gender on the Edge (with Kalissa Alexeyeff, Hawai’i, 2014). He has taught previously at the University of Illinois, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA, and
held visiting appointments or fellowships at the University of Hawai’i, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, University of Auckland, Kagoshima University, Waseda University, University of Melbourne, École Normal Supérieure Paris, Université de Toulouse
III Paul Sabatier, and the University of Manchester.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Co-presented by
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<p class="Pa4" style="margin-top:2.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:black">ANU Pacific Institute
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<p class="Pa4" style="margin-top:2.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#363C41">School of
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#211D1E">Culture, History and
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</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:#F58123">Asia & the Pacific</span><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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