Most research on global sports policy either negates or underappreciate perspectives from
the Global South. This article incorporates Southern Theory to examine how Northern …

Women rugby players are participating in the sport at the highest levels to date. However,
despite this increase in participation, sports sciences and sports medicine/sports …

Whilst other sporting narratives of girls and women from the Global North have been well
explored, there is limited research about girls from a Fijian background. Furthermore, within …

There is ongoing debate regarding the culture of competitive women's sports. On one hand,
women who participate in sports are viewed as adhering to and reinforcing heteronormative …

Both the approach taken by World Rugby to address the question of trans women
participation in women's rugby and the paper by Jon Pike that explains the ethical …

At home in Tonga, there is barely enough money to support the national team, whose
members are for the most part employed by teams overseas, let alone a sport infrastructure …

Negative societal pressures against women's participation in traditionally male-dominated
sports like rugby are widely acknowledged, but little empirical research has investigated …

Over the past two decades, research on the use of the concept 'sports diplomacy'has
received growing attention from academics, public organisations, private organisations, and …

Rugby represents an intersection of gendered ethno-nationalism and anti-imperialist
modern nationalism in Fiji. It wields immense symbolic power as an epitome of hegemonic …

Presenting a diverse range of empirical case studies, from bodybuilding in Kazakhstan and
Thailand, karate in Afghanistan and women's rugby in Fiji to women's soccer in North Korea …