Performance Enhancement and Politicisation of High-Performance Sport: The West German ‘air clyster’ Affair of 1976

Meier, Henk Erik; Reinold, Marcel

doi:10.1080/09523367.2013.784273

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“…However, East German athletic dominance came with consequences for West German sport as the West German political elite perceived international sport as an important Cold War arena as well. The political interest in athletic achievements inspired the modernization of structures and policies within the West German sport movement because the federal government offered heavily increased subsidies in exchange for efforts to improve performances (Balbier, 2005, see also Meier & Reinold, 2013). Yet the increased politicization of sport remained controversial in West Germany.…”

Section: Sports-related Policies In the Divided Germanymentioning

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“…The political interest in athletic achievements inspired the modernization of structures and policies within the West German sport movement because the federal government offered heavily increased subsidies in exchange for efforts to improve performances (Balbier, 2005, see also Meier & Reinold, 2013). Yet the increased politicization of sport remained controversial in West Germany.…”

Section: Sports-related Policies In the Divided Germanymentioning

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Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

Meier

Mutz

2016

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It is commonly assumed that international sport reinforces feelings of national pride and national identity. Using large-scale survey data from Germany, covering the period between 1992 and 2008, some unresolved key questions surrounding sportive nationalism are addressed. We examine the relative importance of sport as a source of national pride, analyze the sociodemographics of sportive nationalism, and describe its long-term development in East and West Germany after reunification. Results reveal that sport is an increasingly important source of pride in Germany. Sportive nationalism is more common among younger generations, males, and individuals with lower socioeconomic status. Prevailing differences between East and West Germany document persistent socialization effects of former sport-centered identity politics. Among East Germans, sport is more important for general national pride, and sportive nationalism is much more equally distributed between various social groups (with regard to age, gender, education). From 1992 to 2008, however, a trend toward convergence between East and West Germans is also demonstrated.

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Section: Sports-related Policies In the Divided Germanymentioning

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Section: Sports-related Policies In the Divided Germanymentioning

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Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

Meier

Mutz

2016

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“…Ideology is seen as the rule of reason in which there is both a theory of truth and a theory of error (Bauman, 2006, p. 110) based on values that determine what is right and what is wrong. Ideology consists of common beliefs and values that underpin the way we make sense of and frame situations, how we act within them, and the associated organizational mechanisms and dynamics of control and reward (Meier & Reinold, 2013). Knowledge generation is ideologically loaded, at a generic level underpinned by the values of rigorous research, original contributions, and academic freedom, where the latter is viewed as "fundamentally important to the pursuit of knowledge.…”

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Anticipating and Addressing the Politicization of Research

Chelli

Cunliffe

2020

Organizational Research Methods

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We examine an underaddressed issue in organizational research, the nature of the politicization of knowledge and its consequences for conducting research. Drawing on an illustrative case from a PhD research study and the underutilized theory of politicization, we go beyond previous work on politics in organization and management research to offer three contributions. First, we develop a process model underscoring the potentially emergent and interwoven nature of the politicization of research. In particular, we suggest politicization be seen as a trajectory of moments of difference in which researchers may or may not be aware of the potential political significance. Second, we offer four analytical resources to help researchers make sense around why politicization may occur: disputes over the “ownership” of knowledge, clashes of representational logics, ideological differences, and identity struggles. Third, we argue that politicization can be a catalyst, rather than an obstacle, for knowledge production and propose ways of anticipating and negotiating differences. Our aim is to raise awareness of the importance of understanding and anticipating the politicized situations researchers may encounter in their work.

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“…Public authorities have played a highly ambiguous role in doping history. Sport's politicization, that is, "the use of high-performance sport for identity politics pursued by state governments" (Meier & Reinold, 2013, p. 1353), accounted to a considerable extent for the medicalization of modern sports and paralyzed antidoping efforts (Hunt, 2011). The governments' interest in high performance sport as vehicle for identity politics implied also that the IOC could not trust on their support for far-reaching antidoping initiatives exceeding the IOC's limited jurisdiction.…”

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Immunizing Inefficient Field Frames for Mitigating Social Problems: The Institutional Work Behind the Technocratic Antidoping System

Meier

Reinold

2018

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Doping is making headlines again. After whistle-blowers revealed systematic doping practices, parts of the Russian team were suspended from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 2016. Before, the sport world had seen major doping scandals, such as, revelations about East Germany's largescale state doping program, the Festina scandal during the 1998 Tour de France, the Fuentes affair, and the fall of cycling idol Lance Armstrong (Dimeo, 2014). This article is motivated by fact that none of these scandals has been detected by the heavily expanded technocratic doping test system. Without denying that the test system has achieved some successes, these revelations about undetected misconduct indicate serious flaws of the test system. Whereas research on athletes' perception of the likelihood of detection by the test system are rare, some studies conducted among athletes suggest that the technocratic test system is met with distrust and frustration (Efverström, Bäckström, Ahmadi, & Hoff, 2016; Overbye, 2016). Furthermore, a number of studies suggest that the extent of doping is significantly higher than that found in the official testing statistics (de Hon,

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Performance Enhancement and Politicisation of High-Performance Sport: The West German ‘air clyster’ Affair of 1976

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

Anticipating and Addressing the Politicization of Research

Immunizing Inefficient Field Frames for Mitigating Social Problems: The Institutional Work Behind the Technocratic Antidoping System

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