"Not just merely different: Travelling Theories, post-feminism and the racialized politics of women of color"

I argue (with Samie, 2017) that when even the so-called “critical” scholarship about women of color mostly speaks to cultural tropes of difference, this limits the possibility of recovering alternative knowledges. For me, uncovering persistent problems is an essential step to urging contemporary researchers to better recover diverse representations of difference that are sometimes consciously, and other times inadvertently, erased. Adding my voice to a number of sport scholars who advocate a decolonising approach, this paper highlights the importance of centring the differential manifestation of power asymmetries through a transnational feminist approach, within and across the transient boundaries of space, belonging and knowledge production, in order to put the “critical” back into critical studies of race, sport and gender.