Beyond the Rink

Auteur

Alexandra Giancarlo is a settler scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, where she applies her broad social sciences training to socio-cultural studies of sport and physical activity. The bulk of her work comprises community-engaged research with residential school survivors and their families.

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Beyond the Rink recontextualizes and repatriates photos from the 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks hockey team promotional tour, bringing together Indigenous studies, history, and visual sociology to reveal the complicated role of sports in residential school histories.