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Title: | Broadening Readings of Sport Monuments: The Arthur Baynes Memorial Obelisk | Contributor(s): | Osmond, Gary (author); Parker, Claire (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1080/09523367.2013.789868 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13632 | Abstract: | Monuments to past and present sports performers are increasingly commonplace. Despite the potential for analyses of sports monuments to provide new and valuable insights into past and present sociocultural practices, studies of monuments and other forms of material culture have, until recently, received limited attention in sports historiography. In addition, new scholarship has tended to focus on sporting statues over other, non-figurative, monumental genres. This article will attempt to redress this relative neglect and contribute to a broadening discourse of sport, memory and materiality by analysing one particular sporting monument, a memorial obelisk erected in 1933 on the banks of the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia to prominent 1920s sculler Arthur Alexander Baynes (1899-1932). The article examines Baynes' sporting career, considers his memorial within the context of obelisks and other commemorative monumental forms, and reads the memorial in its various discursive international, national, regional and local contexts. By providing a detailed analysis of this one 'local' sporting monument, the intention of this article is to add to the expanding literature on sporting material culture and, in particular, broaden our readings of sport monuments. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The International Journal of the History of Sport, 30(12), p. 1374-1393 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1743-9035 0952-3367 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430399 Historical studies not elsewhere classified 449999 Other human society not elsewhere classified 430302 Australian history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified 950503 Understanding Australias Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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