Rupturing the Sport Management Classroom: Zine Making for World Making

What the paper says

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (and the pandemic of capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, etc.) calls for imaginative, relevant, and critical approaches in sport management education to address diverse, socially, and culturally dynamic students. Yet, the bulk of existing educational resources remain rooted in reinforcing systems of domination and the structure of ongoing settler colonialism. A major challenge in traditional approaches to “updating” the curriculum fall short in challenging the banking mode of education. Following Amis and Silk’s call for a “rupture” of the reproduction of the status quo within sport management research, we invite sport management educators to reconsider the skills and embodied knowledge needed to equip sport management students to critically interrogate the “classroom-to-industry” pipeline. We introduce zine making as a pedagogical practice in the classroom. Zine making facilitates learning through a process of doing and thinking. When implemented intentionally, students explore their lived experiences, applying critical social theories to practice through shared learning and creative expression.