Introduction: the politics of sport – community, mobility, identity

Gilchrist, Paul; Holden, Russell

doi:10.1080/17430437.2011.546516

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“…As such, this dilemma is not merely about Bahrain but about the FIA. The view that the FIA, or any other sport governing body (SGB), can remain completely neutral in political conflicts might perhaps have been legitimate in 1985 but today it is, according to critics, ‘an isolated prescription which buckles under historical scrutiny’ (Gilchrist & Holden, 2012 , p. 1). One reason is that boycott is not the only option to hand.…”

Section: The Fia Revisits Politicsmentioning

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From Small Association to Global Pundit: 2009–2020

Næss¹

2020

A History of Organizational Change

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When Jean Todt became Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) president in 2009, he made good use of the Mosley legacy. At the same time, he engineered a series of new reforms that would mark the greatest difference between the old and the new FIA. This chapter explores a selection of organisational innovations during Todt’s three presidential periods (2009–2021). This selection includes two presidential elections in 2009 and 2013 which had a hitherto unrivalled emphasis on good governance, a political debacle (the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix), a structural revamp (the establishing the FIA Statutes Review), the introduction of an external audit (aided by consulting firm, Deloitte), and a proactive media strategy to comprehend a media logic (by publishing AUTO magazine from 2012 onwards). Together, this combination of substantive and symbolic actions represents the FIA’s desire to renew its legitimacy among its members, motorists, and other stakeholders.

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Section: The Fia Revisits Politicsmentioning

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From Small Association to Global Pundit: 2009–2020

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2020

A History of Organizational Change

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“…In the Canadian context, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation played an instrumental role in presenting hockey as a national pastime and profited from doing so (Howell ). Promoting nationalism is almost always a secondary interest; the centrality of pursuing profit often leads corporations to alter existing narratives of belonging, such as nationalism (Gilchrist and Holden : 4). The promoters of commodified sport may draw on sport as a symbol to achieve widely divergent ends such as promoting or undermining nationalist attachments.…”

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Everyday nationalism and international hockey: contesting Canadian national identity

Watson

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between international competition, national identity and commercial sport has made hockey an ambiguous and contested national symbol in Canada.

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“…The Federation has consequently developed partnerships with schools to enable new participants to practise football (for example, schemes such as 'De l'Ecole au Stade' (From school to stadium) or 'La Quinzaine du Foot' (The football fortnight)). The relationship between school activities and social practices is therefore considered obvious and the attention given to what is taught at school is decisive (Gilchrist and Holden 2011). This relationship is all the more important in a context where gender equality is regarded as essential and should structure public policy (Hollande 2014).…”

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Accessing sport through education. Policy frameworks for girls’ practice of sport in France from 1945 to today

Attali

Bazoge

2020

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Our research analyzes French public policies concerning girls' access to sport through educational measures. It is based on the study of official texts and institutional reports published since 1945. They are seen as being indicators of the policy frameworks defined by the French State and guiding educators' action. Insofar as school has a socialisation role and contributes to the construction of stereotypes from a very young age, it appears essential to understand the practice possibilities offered there. It is thus a question of identifying the possibilities offered to girls and the representations associated with them, as well as the political, ideological and social foundations determining the directions taken. The historical approach was chosen to apprehend the processes that structured policy action and identify the changes over the long term. Justifying a policy of segregation, the naturalisation of the physical and moral qualities attributed to girls was followed by a universalist perspective adopted, from the 1980s onwards, as the condition for democratised access to the practice of sport. Failure to consider the social gender-related division of sports practices, constituting an obstacle to the construction of equality, gave way to reflection on the diffusion of stereotypes. This reflection achieved consensus in relation to policy ambitions at the beginning of the 2000s without, however, managing to detach itself from a naturalisation of the tastes and aptitudes of each sex.

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Introduction: the politics of sport – community, mobility, identity

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

From Small Association to Global Pundit: 2009–2020

From Small Association to Global Pundit: 2009–2020

Everyday nationalism and international hockey: contesting Canadian national identity

Accessing sport through education. Policy frameworks for girls’ practice of sport in France from 1945 to today

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