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Global Sport in the Pacific

Special Issue of The Contemporary Pacific 26(2) 2014

edited by Fa'Anofo LisaClaire (Lisa) Uperesa and Tom Mountjoy

Global Sport in the Pacific: A Brief Overview
Fa‘anofo Lisaclaire (Lisa) Uperesa and Tom Mountjoy

Fabled Futures: Migration and Mobility for Samoans in American Football
Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa

“No Longer Just a Pastime”: Sport for Development in Times of Change
Christina Ting Kwauk

Playing with Knowledge: Sport and the Paradox of Development in Solomon Islands
Tom Mountjoy

Pasifika Diaspora and the Changing Face of Australian Rugby League
David Lakisa, Daryl Adair and Tracy Taylor

Participating in the Global Competition: Denaturalizing “Flair” in Samoan Rugby

Julien Clément

Beyond the All Blacks Representations: The Dialectic between the Indigenization of Rugby and Postcolonial Strategies to Control Māori

Domenica Gisella Calabrò

“Such a Site for Play, This Edge”: Surfing, Tourism, and Modernist Fantasy in Papua New Guinea

Paige West

Sports, Bodies, and Futures: An Epilogue

Niko Besnier