Sports Fandom, Performativity, and Identity: A Threaded Questioning of/With Allyship-Focused Sports Materials

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Five
  In Roundtable Session: Mentorship, Allyship, and Decolonial Approaches to Educational Research (Table 1)

Abstract

Fan identity does not disappear once students and teachers enter schools. Students and teachers are parts of these sporting communities, choosing to wear team apparel to school and to decorate classroom walls. In this paper, we consider the relationship between (performed) sport fandom, sports apparel, and performative allyship, alongside the implications these threadings may have on teaching and learning. To attend to these tensions and concerns, Here, we use collaborative ethnography methods (Buford May & Patillo-McCoy, 2000) underpinned by new materialism—specifically (threaded) thing-power (Bennett, 2009)—and performative sport fandom (PSF) to consider our own interactions with allyship-focused sports materials and examine potential classroom possibilities for such engagements.

Authors

• Andrea M. Hawkman, Rowan University
  Presenting Author

• Bretton A. Varga, California State University - Chico
  Presenting Author

• Tommy Ender, Rhode Island College
  Presenting Author