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- Title
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton's Ice District.
- Authors
Scherer, Jay; Davidson, Judy; Kafara, Rylan; Koch, Jordan
- Abstract
The new urban sporting territory in Edmonton's city center was constructed within the framework of continued settler colonialism. The main catalyst for this development was sport-related gentrification: a new, publicly financed ice hockey arena for the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers, and a surrounding sport and entertainment district. This two-year ethnography explores this territory, in particular the changing interactions between preexisting, less affluent city-center residents and police, private security, crisis workers, and hockey fans. It reveals how residents navigate the physical and spatial changes to a downtown that are not only structured by revanchism, but by what Rai Reece calls "carceral redlining," or the continuation of White supremacy through regulation, surveillance, displacement, and dispossession.
- Subjects
EDMONTON (Alta.); COLONIES; NATIONAL Hockey League; WHITE supremacy; HOCKEY; POLICE; ICE; HISTORY of sports; GENTRIFICATION
- Publication
Sociology of Sport Journal, 2021, Vol 38, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
0741-1235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/ssj.2020-0113