Power And Politics In World Athletics

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000400472

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Power and Politics in World Athletics by Jörg Krieger Pdf

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics. The book critically assesses the internal power relations within the IAAF by focusing on the IAAF leadership. Based on extensive archival research, Power and Politics in World Athletics offers a nuanced analysis of the institutionalised strategies that developed as a reflection of the IAAF’s interests and aims to create a broader understanding of the global sport system. With only six presidents in over a century of existence, the IAAF’s leaders had profound impacts on other international institutions, national stakeholders and sporting participants. Through four sections, the book identifies various key turning points in the history of the governing body of athletics, and explores the IAAF’s foundation, the policies of past IAAF presidents, and controversial issues such as doping, corruption and manipulation through a socio-historical lens. The book shows that while anyone could take part in athletics, policies enacted by each president served to ostracize those groups who did not fit into the IAAF’s vision of an equal playing field. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in sport history, sport sociology, the politics of sport, sport management, sport governance, or international organisations.

Author : Yoav Dubinsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031325502

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Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy by Yoav Dubinsky Pdf

This book critically discusses the role of sports in nation branding and public diplomacy during the years 2020 and 2022, as the world was going through a global pandemic and health, economic, social, and political crises. The book argues that the use of sports for nation branding and public diplomacy goals is not new, but the changes the world went through required nations, places, communities, and individuals to modify and adapt the ways they use sports for country image purposes. After discussing global changes, the book outlines the theoretical frameworks of nation branding and public diplomacy, and discusses their manifestations through the evolution of the FIFA World Cup, the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the role of Title IX in American sports, the European Super League, the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships, the emergence of sport-tech diplomacy, and though the role of sports and the global order in an ever-changing world.

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781957792521

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Athletics in the Nordic Countries by Jörg Krieger Pdf

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics (track and field). The chapters provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. The authors identify the leading role of sport leaders from Scandinavia in the foundation years and highlight how athletics’ events held in the region were milestones in the transformation of the sport. Athletics’ international governing body World Athletics was founded in Sweden in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Seventy years later, Finland hosted the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983. In between those turning points, Nordic officials and athletes promoted significant changes in athletics, and their innovative approaches continue to shape the development of the sport until today.

Author : Fan Hong,Zhouxiang Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317574019

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Sport and Nationalism in Asia by Fan Hong,Zhouxiang Lu Pdf

Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research which addresses a number of issues central to notions of nationalism and identity in sport including: how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism; the role of traditional sport in the building of national consciousness and national identity; the way modern sport creates and reflects nationalism, thereby giving it a voice and a focus. The book covers eight case studies on countries/regions across West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia. It is one of the few works that examines the relationships between sport, politics and nationalism from Asian perspective. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Simon Chadwick,Paul Widdop,Michael M. Goldman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000882285

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The Geopolitical Economy of Sport by Simon Chadwick,Paul Widdop,Michael M. Goldman Pdf

This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport – the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global response, and the consequent ramifications for sport have put the geopolitical economy of sport front and centre in both public debate and academic thinking. Similarly, the Winter Olympics in Beijing and the FIFA World Cup in Qatar illustrate the political, economic, and geographic imperatives that shape modern sport. This book brings together studies from around the world to describe this new geopolitical economy of sport, from the way in which countries use natural resource revenues, accusations of sport washing, and the deployment of sport for soft power purposes, to the way in which sport has become a focus for industrial development. This book looks at the geopolitical economy of sport across the globe, from the Gulf States’ interests in European soccer to Israel seeking to build a national competitive advantage by positioning itself as a global sports tech start-up hub, and the United States continuing to extend its economic and cultural influence through geopolitical sport activities in Africa, Latin America, and the Indian subcontinent. This book captures a pivotal moment in the history of sport and sport business. This is essential reading for any student, researcher, practitioner, or policymaker with an interest in sport business, the politics of sport, geopolitics, soft power, diplomacy, international relations, or international political economy.

Author : Koji Kobayashi,John Horne,Younghan Cho,Jung Woo Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9789819900114

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Sports Mega-Events in Asia by Koji Kobayashi,John Horne,Younghan Cho,Jung Woo Lee Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive collection focusing on the hosting of sports mega-events within Asia and their impact on the politics, economics, and culture that shape, and are shaped by, the local idiosyncrasies of host cities and countries across this most culturally diverse continent. From the Olympic Games and single sport World Cups, to the Asian Games and their sub-regional variations, an increasing number of Asian countries have rapidly developed their capacity to host and mobilize large-scale sports events as a cornerstone of their economic growth, national identity formation, and international prestige. This book sets out to fill a gap in the literature and will be of particular relevance to those who are interested in globalization, sports studies, political economy, cultural studies, event management and policy, sociology, media studies, and Asian studies

Author : Alfred Erich Senn
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0880119586

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Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games by Alfred Erich Senn Pdf

Traces the history of the modern Olympic games, and looks at boycotts, performance enhancing drugs, judging controversies, corporate sponsorships, and international rivalries

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781957792057

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Athletes Pressing Charges by Jörg Krieger Pdf

Athletes Pressing Charges explores the athlete-led protest movement in the Olympic sport of modern pentathlon. The athlete activists protest against the removal of the horse-riding discipline from the sport and blame the sport's governing body, the International Modern Pentathlon Union, for violating good governance principles and mismanagement. By taking the existing power imbalance between sport organizations and athletes as a starting point, this book argues that providing a voice to independent athletes affected by policy changes, is crucial to understand the ongoing issues in the sport. The protest movement is contextualized against the backdrop of increasingly stronger attempts by athletes from semi-professional Olympic sports to make their voices heard in decision-making processes. Therefore, this study has broader significance for the ongoing challenges by athletes and athletes-led organizations on powerful sport organizations

Author : Lincoln Allison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134281572

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The Global Politics of Sport by Lincoln Allison Pdf

Sport presents one of the most advanced cases of 'globalisation,' arguably because there are fewer cultural and political obstacles to the development of trade and international power in sport than there are in other fields. Thus there has been a change in the nature of the politics of sport since the end of the Cold War; the subject must be rewritten to acknowledge a twenty-first century world in which international sporting organisations and transnational corporations have become far more important than states. The Global Politics of Sport presents a range of essays examining the emerging global political issues in twenty-first century sport including: · The role, and power of organisations such as FIFA and the IOC · The influence of US exceptionalism · The construction of global sports heroes · Tensions developing within traditionally 'alternative' sports in a global commercial culture The Global Politics of Sport presents new and fresh exploration of different conceptions of sport as a purely commercial activity and as an activity as embodying 'higher' social and ethical values.

Author : Michelle M Sikes
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628955149

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Kenya's Running Women by Michelle M Sikes Pdf

Since Pauline Konga’s breakthrough performance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, the world has become accustomed to seeing Kenyan women medal at major championships, sweep marathons, and set world records. Yet little is known about the pioneer generation of women who paved the way for Kenya’s reputation as an international powerhouse in women’s track and field. In Kenya’s Running Women: A History, historian and former professional runner Michelle M. Sikes details the triumphs and many challenges these women faced, from the advent of Kenya’s athletics program in the colonial era through the professionalization of running in the 1980s and 1990s. Sikes reveals how over time running became a vehicle for Kenyan women to expand the boundaries of acceptable female behavior. Kenya’s Running Women demonstrates the necessity of including women in histories of African sport, and of incorporating sport into studies of African gender and nation-building.

Author : Belinda Wheaton,Holly Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351029520

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Action Sports and the Olympic Games by Belinda Wheaton,Holly Thorpe Pdf

Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond. In an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, four new action sports, surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and BMX freestyle were included in the Tokyo Olympic program. Drawing upon interviews with Olympic insiders, as well as leaders, athletes, and participants in these action sports communities, the book details the impacts on the action sports industry and cultures, and offers national comparisons to show the uneven effects resulting from Olympic inclusion. It reveals the intricate workings of power and politics in contemporary sports organisations, and maps key trends in this changing sporting landscape. Action Sports and the Olympic Games is a fascinating read for anybody studying the Olympics, the sociology of sport, action sports, or sport policy.

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538187128

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Sports in International Politics by Timothy D. Sisk Pdf

This book explores the complex linkages between power politics of the international arena, the profit-seeking, often elitist and at-times corrupt world of professional international sport, and the promise for harnessing sport to promote human rights, inclusive development, and sustainable peace in a violent world.

Author : Michael A. Grant,Hubert Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Athletics
ISBN : 9769519987

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The Power & the Glory by Michael A. Grant,Hubert Lawrence Pdf

Author : John Peter Sugden,Alan Tomlinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0415251001

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Power Games by John Peter Sugden,Alan Tomlinson Pdf

Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of power relations throughout the world of sport, while offering important new case studies from such diverse sporting contexts as the Olympics, world football, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. In the process, it addresses key topics such as: * nations and nationalism * globalisation * race * gender * political economy. Power Games can be used as a complete introduction to the study of sport and society. And will be essential reading for any serious student of sport. At the same time, it is a provocative book that by argument and example challenges those who research and write about sport to make their work relevant to social and political reform.

Author : Robert E. Washington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429976841

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Sport, Power, and Society by Robert E. Washington Pdf

This comprehensive collection examines the culture of sport and its relationship with various social institutions. The editors first provide a broad overview of the field and describe the ways in which the concept of sport as a meritocratic contest is undermined by the powerful social structures within which it is embedded. Sections focus on political economy, violence, the media, education, politics, fans and community, and the body. Primary readings from noted scholars in each section address current issues such as the presence of big-time sports in educational institutions; the effects of corporate media; race and class relations; professional athletes' ties to politics; and how sports alter perceptions and practices regarding beauty and health. In addition, entertaining and provocative essays from journalists supplement academic readings and spotlight key issues. Section introductions from the editors connect the readings to a theoretical framework that explores the perspectives of new institutionalism, cultural hegemony, social capital, and symbolic interaction and cultural construction. Providing a cohesive foundation for a wide range of readings, Sport, Power, and Society is a must-have resource for understanding the current issues and debates surrounding the interactions of sport and society.