Personal Score
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Personal Score

Sport, Culture, Identity

Ellen Van Neerven

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Personal Score

Sport, Culture, Identity

Ellen Van Neerven

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About This Book

A vital and deeply personal testament to self, family, community, culture, and sport.

Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays soccer from a young age, learning early on that while sport can lead to exhilarating experiences and community-building, it can also be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realize about sport's troubled relationship with race, gender, and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises.

Formidable, poetic, and impassioned, Personal Score is improbably many things at once, simultaneously a rumination on sport, relationship to land, Indigenous rights, trans inclusion, and race. Van Neerven weaves broad cultural touchstones, such as Zinedine Zidane's red card in the 2006 World Cup finals, with quiet moments playing soccer with their family, biking to and from practice, detailing a competitive and amorous relationship with a teammate, and simply enthralled by observing the landscape.

Fierce, original, and also abundantly tender, Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that demonstrates van Neerven's unrivalled talent and courage.

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Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Year
2024
ISBN
9781953387462
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Pregame
  2. I Want to Play
  3. Very Athletic People
  4. Sugar Fields
  5. Gender Police
  6. I’m Afraid of Women
  7. Confidence Game
  8. Every Goal and Every Miss
  9. Protest in Sport (A small selection, 1957–2023)
  10. The Bike Path
  11. Skills
  12. Lesbian Mafia
  13. Bookmarks
  14. Flooding My Sentences
  15. Country Is Like the Body
  16. Taking a Stand Against a Name
  17. Personal Score
  18. Birds and Football (Three portraits)
  19. Australia Is Open (To hold! Receive! Take!)
  20. Team EvN
  21. What I Want When I Want You
  22. Family Is a Stadium
  23. Our Descendants Are Watching
  24. Storying Care
  25. France 2019
  26. Virus in a Scorched Land
  27. What Survival Feels Like
  28. 2023
  29. Trans Sporting Utopias
  30. Challenging the Binary
  31. My Existence
  32. Invasion Day Spin Class
  33. Am I Public Space?
  34. Tapestries of Poison
  35. The Pain Game
  36. As Country
  37. How to Play Sport on Indigenous Land
  38. Postgame
  39. References