The popular sounding board: nationalism, ‘the people’ and sport in Norway in the inter‐war years

Goksøyr, Matti

doi:10.1080/09523369708714002

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“…At the opposite end of the scale, in only 10% of the organizations is less than 90% of the work done by volunteers. Secondly, it seems important to point out how geography and climate has made certain sport disciplines-skiing and skating-more popular in Norway than in southern countries and such traditional and historical sports have also played a central role in the process of nation-building (Goksøyr, 1998). More recently, however, sport as a cultural carrier has been influenced just as much by global processes as national traditions (e.g., football; Goksøyr, 1994;Maguire, 1999;Miller et al, 2001), and some of the traditional national particularities are about to lose their impact.…”

Section: The Norwegian Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Sport, civil society and social integration: The case of Norwegian voluntary sport organizations

Seippel

2005

Journal of Civil Society

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Voluntary sport organizations make up the largest part of voluntary sector in many countries. Yet, in light of the renewed social and political interest in civil society, we do not know very much about how sport organizations operate and function. Accordingly, this article addresses the question of how voluntary sport organizations contribute to social integration through differences in community structures. First a theoretical framework making it possible to distinguish between various forms of community structures-strong, weak, mediated and pragmatic communities-is developed. Then, the first empirical part describes how members in sport organizations belong to such various forms of communities. Next, the article explains differences in social integration through social background, variation in participation in sports and various recruitment channels. Finally, the article explores how differences in community structures matters for the experience of sport activity, for organizational democracy and social capital (trust and political interests).

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Section: The Norwegian Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Sport, civil society and social integration: The case of Norwegian voluntary sport organizations

Seippel

2005

Journal of Civil Society

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“…In a historical perspective, the Norwegian national identity has been tightly linked to winter sports (Goksøyr 1998 (2009)), Norway is both a very successful sporting nation (per capita) and the most football-dedicated nation in the world (Kuper and Szymanski 2009). For the purpose of this article, one may assume that Norwegians have an overwhelming interest in sports, especially winter sports, which should indicate that there could be solid support for organising sporting events such as a Winter Olympics.…”

Section: Background: the Olympic Referendum And Norwegian Sports Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

Political framing of sports: the mediated politicisation of Oslo’s interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics

Seippel

Broch

Kristiansen

et al. 2016

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Sport is a malleable phenomenon: it is not obvious what might be contentious about sports and how sports eventually turn into political questions. For years, there had been discussions on whether the city of Oslo should make a bid for the Winter Olympics 2022. In 2012, it was decided that the issue should be the topic for an advisory referendum in 2013. This guaranteed the presence of a sport issue on the public agenda for a longer period. We used the occasion of the referendum to study how a sports issue was framed politically through a content analysis of articles on the issue in a selection of Norwegian papers the year leading up to the election (N = 362). We first give a basic overview of number of articles, the papers in which they occur, article type, and timing. Then, we present the stand taken on the issue and identify the actors involved. Two groups of actors, both positive to making a bid, dominated the debate: sport organisations and Oslo politicians. Finally, we look at the issues discussed. The dominant themes were sport facilities, economic questions, urban development, and sport goods. In our conclusion, we emphasised three aspects of the debate. First, Norwegian regional politics were central in giving meaning to the issue and sports-specific benefits became more marginal. Second, the core argument became that we need a large sports event primarily because of indirect effects. Third, sports as a political issue lacks 'severity' and 'efficacy' and sports are lacking 'propriety'.

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“…63 Skiing, in particular, was seen as a means of asserting Norwegian national identity in the pre-First World War period. 64 Nordic nations were not the only ones to participate in the Nordic Games. The Games have been noted with regard to Russian sport history (specifically in relation the official Soviet narrative of skiing's history vis-à-vis Finland), but the historiography of Scottish/British sport has yet to locate the Nordic Games in relation to it.…”

Section: Curling 'Britain' and The Nordic Gamesmentioning

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‘Frae Land o’ Lakes to land o’ Cakes’: curling, Scotland, Sweden, and historical undercurrents

McDowell

2021

Sport in History

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This article uses curling to explore the relationship between Scotland and Sweden during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A long-term formal and (after the Union of 1707) informal relationship existed between the nations, particularly with regard to the Thirty Years' War and Jacobitism, both of which established a Scottish presence in Gothenburg. Curling entered Sweden through this pipeline in the early-to mid-nineteenth century, with Sweden's first known club, Bohuslän Curling Club (Bohuslänska Curlingklubben), formed at Uddevalla in 1852 by the Thorburn-Macfie family and associates; the family ran an industrial concern selling oats for horses powering London's expanding transport network. Curling remained confined to Uddevalla until the first Nordic Games (Nordiska Spelen) in 1901, whereby the sport became part of a programme emphasising elite ideas of sport. Later iterations of the Games would feature Scottish curlers. In the 1920s and 1930s, semi-regular trips were also arranged between Scotland and Sweden by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) and the Swedish Curling Union (Svensk Curlingförbundet); here, while the game was placed within a contemporary royalist, martial, and racial context by RCCC and public officials, reference points recalled the pre-Union relationship between the two nations as pertained to the Thirty Years' War.

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The popular sounding board: nationalism, ‘the people’ and sport in Norway in the inter‐war years

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Sport, civil society and social integration: The case of Norwegian voluntary sport organizations

Sport, civil society and social integration: The case of Norwegian voluntary sport organizations

Political framing of sports: the mediated politicisation of Oslo’s interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics

‘Frae Land o’ Lakes to land o’ Cakes’: curling, Scotland, Sweden, and historical undercurrents

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