General posts, including essays and discussions.
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE cliquer [ICI]. Oh the drama. If you don’t know what is going on with respect to the NWHL and Barstool, you can get caught up with Hemal Javeri’s piece [HERE]. It got worse this morning when Dave Portnoy, President of Barstool, posted his own hateful video. I will not re-post…
Co-authored by Brett Pardy and Courtney Szto I (Courtney) was looking for a picture of Hilary Knight to include in my lecture slides and this is what I found when I went to Google images: These are all perfectly fine photos but I wanted one of Knight playing hockey because the other photos on the…
Co-written by Brett Pardy, Madison Danford, and Martine Dennie On December 10th, the MacEwan University Office of Human Rights, Diversity and Equity held a virtual summit addressing racism in hockey. The event brought together people from academia, grass roots hockey organizations, the National Hockey Hockey League, and hockey media. Speakers included Harnaryan Singh, Play-by-Play Commentator,…
Last week, Players Against Hate (PAH) launched a database for reporting racist incidents in hockey. It is the first public database cataloguing racism in youth hockey. The fact that this kind of oversight and data gathering mechanism is new to hockey, is telling in and of itself. PAH received a grant from the Palmer Foundation…
Translated by Barbara Ravel. For the English version click [HERE]. Cela a pris environ un an mais j’ai tranquillement abandonné les études sur le hockey. Je voulais écrire un dernier article pour Hockey dans la Société il y a des mois de ça mais, pour être honnête, je ne savais pas vraiment quoi dire, où arrêter, comment conclure. J’ai…
Hockey is a slow game to adapt, painfully slow. Yet goaltending over the last quarter century has been completely revolutionized, far outpacing the myths the game thrives on. Hockey in Society alumus Cheryl MacDonald organized an interdisciplinary online symposium that brought together athletes and academics from science, social science, and arts backgrounds to discuss the…
Cette traduction a été effectuée à l’automne 2020 par les étudiants du cours de Sociologie du sport de l’Université Laurentienne (Sudbury, Ontario), en collaboration avec leur enseignante à l’École de kinésiologie et des sciences de la santé, Barbara Ravel, PhD. L’année dernière, Tim Hortons a travaillé avec le conglomérat de jouets Mattel pour lancer « une…
When I was in grade 10, I had an assignment in history class where we had to create a monument capturing a moment in Canadian history we felt deserved to be honoured. Mine was something quite different than those of my peers; I made a 5-foot-tall stick person, made entirely out of old hockey sticks,…
In the summer of 2019, Alysha Bains (PhD student, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication) and I went to Calgary, Alberta for a week to hang out with Apna Hockey, an organization that aims to provide South Asian hockey participants with a safe space to enjoy and learn the game of hockey. We were going…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE cliquer [ICI]. It has been approximately a year in the making, but I have slowly moved away from hockey studies. I meant to write one last piece for Hockey in Society months ago but the truth is that I wasn’t sure what to say—where to leave off, how to conclude. I…
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