Sites of Truth or Metaphors of Power? Refiguring the Archive

Booth, Douglas

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“…However, Marxism did contribute to a more enduring critical view of sport in the form of hegemony (Morgan 1994) which by the mid-1990s proliferated in the sport history (Howell 1998). Elsewhere I argue that the appeal of hegemony in sport history resonated with the politics of disappointment associated with the apparent passing of the collective radicalism that thrived in the late 1960s and early '70s (Booth 2005). Hegemonic capitalism and hegemonic masculinity became the conceptual instruments to explain the co-optation of oppositional or alternative sporting values.…”

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“…Michael Oriard (1995) explores his subject -American football -as a cultural text grounded in multiple voices and perspectives. I have advocated reconceptualizing archives as sites of power rather than sites of knowledge (Booth 2006a) and Brett Hutchins (2002) deconstructs the functions of myths which he links to structures of social power and vested interests. Gary Osmond and Murray Phillips (2004) and Jaime Schultz (2005) approach memory as a process of construction rather than one of retrieving facts and truth.…”

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Sport history and the seeds of a postmodern discourse

Booth¹

2009

Rethinking History

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Thirty years after its conception and development as a branch of social history, academic sport history is in a state of flux. The empirical, inferential and objective principles and tenets of modernist academic sport history face an increasing challenge from postmodernism, an explicitly self-conscious and reflexive form of thinking that is recasting history as a constructed discourse of the past. In this article I look at the growth of postmodernism and the extent to which it is redefining sport history as a new discipline. My initial focus is on the seeds of this growth, its conceptual, ideological, narratological and semiological features (Munslow 2007). Drawing on examples from sport history, I examine each of these seeds in turn, first, through the lens of modernist history and then postmodernism. In the concluding section, I identify areas of accommodation between modernist and postmodernist sport histories, and I discuss the potential for that accommodation to bloom into histories in which authors openly reflect on their work and their formats and methods, and reveal their ideological and political objectives as well as the limitations of their narratives. Rather than seeing postmodernism as antithetical to the goals of studying the past, I suggest that it can enrich critical perspectives on the past and the way we use the past for our present needs.

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Sport history and the seeds of a postmodern discourse

Booth¹

2009

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“…[4] In this context, Lobby had prodigious ancestry. His father was Brigadier-General Henri Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (1868-1960) of the Royal Engineers and his grandfather Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere had been a senior politician in Quebec, Canada, and was lieutenant governor of British Columbia between 1900 and 1906.…”

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‘Lobby’ and the Formative Years of Radio Sports Commentary, 1935–1952

Haynes¹

2009

Sport in History

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This article traces the professional career and influence on sports broadcasting of Seymour Joly de Lotbiniere, known within the BBC as Lobby. Lobby was the BBC's Director of Outside Broadcasts from 1935 to 1939, and then again encompassing radio and television from 1946 to 1952, before concentrating on television OBs from 1952-55. He is widely credited with transforming the codes and conventions of radio running commentary as the BBC expanded its radio coverage of sport in the late 1930s and in the immediate post-war years. The article provides a brief biographical sketch of Lobby's upper-class background and privileged education and how this influenced his eventual career in broadcasting. Drawing on papers held in the BBC Written Archives and on autobiographical accounts of BBC commentators, the article analyses Lobby's development of the core principles of running commentary, the recruitment and management of commentators and his relations with the producers of sports coverage in Broadcasting House and the BBC's regional centres. The article concludes that Lobby's meticulous management and analytical approach to sports commentary had a significant influence on the institutional practices of the BBC's outside broadcasting department, an influence that continues to reverberate today.

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“…[31] Unlike the Football Association, the history of its Scottish counterpart has yet to be written. One reason for this omission may be that none of the early records of the association have survived: they were already missing in 1894.…”

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The Archive, the Press and Victorian Football: The Case of the Glasgow Charity Cup1

Kay¹

2009

Sport in History

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Sites of Truth or Metaphors of Power? Refiguring the Archive

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Sport history and the seeds of a postmodern discourse

Sport history and the seeds of a postmodern discourse

‘Lobby’ and the Formative Years of Radio Sports Commentary, 1935–1952

The Archive, the Press and Victorian Football: The Case of the Glasgow Charity Cup1

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