In this course, you will approach sport as one possible 'everyday' way to examine themes of equity and social change in terms of gender, class, race and ability and how it sits in relation to power and forms of social contestation.

Around the world sport is a central dimension to social life, threading relations between people across generations via the casual play at local parks, organised competitions at ovals, all the way through to the mega-events and massive stadiums of the global sport industry. Sport is at once a measure of how we understand our own embodiment while also being an everyday barometer of social and cultural priorities, identity and social participation.

By examining the consequences for equity at each point, you will learn about sport in the most local contexts through to the expansions of sports globally, and via a range of different sports and playing contexts. In doing so, you will understand how the questions of equity shift and are informed by the impacts of colonialism, state agendas and market forces from the local to the global. This is not a course specifically for only sport lovers. Rather, the course critically engages with sport as a way to understand social equity and can be of interest to anyone who works in community organisations, across different levels of government and in the philanthropic and not-for-profit sectors and broader civil society.