Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia

This paper provides an overview of the role that badminton has played in Indonesia. It focuses in particular on the ethnic aspect of the sport: ethnic Chinese are represented at the top levels of the game way out of proportion to their presence in the general population. It also examines the politic...

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Main Author: Brown, Colin
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) & Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University 2004
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Online Access:http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Brown-C-ASAA2004.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6100
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description This paper provides an overview of the role that badminton has played in Indonesia. It focuses in particular on the ethnic aspect of the sport: ethnic Chinese are represented at the top levels of the game way out of proportion to their presence in the general population. It also examines the political context of badminton, both in terms of its contribution to Indonesian nationalism and a sense of nation, and the ways in which it might have impinged on Indonesia's domestic and foreign politics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-61002017-01-30T10:50:37Z Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia Brown, Colin cultural identity badminton Indonesia nationalism ethnicity This paper provides an overview of the role that badminton has played in Indonesia. It focuses in particular on the ethnic aspect of the sport: ethnic Chinese are represented at the top levels of the game way out of proportion to their presence in the general population. It also examines the political context of badminton, both in terms of its contribution to Indonesian nationalism and a sense of nation, and the ways in which it might have impinged on Indonesia's domestic and foreign politics. 2004 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6100 http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Brown-C-ASAA2004.pdf Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) & Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University fulltext
spellingShingle cultural identity
badminton
Indonesia
nationalism
ethnicity
Brown, Colin
Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title_full Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title_fullStr Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title_short Sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for Indonesia
title_sort sport, politics and ethnicity: playing badminton for indonesia
topic cultural identity
badminton
Indonesia
nationalism
ethnicity
url http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Brown-C-ASAA2004.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6100