Watching the Games

Boyle, Raymond; Haynes, Richard

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“…While (controversial) reforms to the constitution of the NHS were instituted almost immediately – charges for the provision of dentures and glasses (1951), charges for medical prescriptions (1952) – and while the NHS today faces competition from private health schemes and hospitals, the provision has continued in a recognizable form up to the present day, with the NHS employing more than one million people. The NHS has been described as ‘the institution which more than any other unites our nation’ (Boyle 2012). More evocatively, ‘born out of extraordinary circumstances’ – the epiphany of surviving and heeding the Second World War – the NHS is to be appreciated as ‘an extraordinary institution’ (Tallis 2016).…”

Section: Part Ii: the Impersonalism Of Lovementioning

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An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts

Stade

Rapport

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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In liberal political philosophy, from Michel de Montaigne to Judith Shklar, cruelty – the wilful inflicting of pain on another in order to cause anguish and fear – has been singled out as ‘the most evil of all evils’ and as unjustifiable: the ultimate vice. An unconditional rejection and negation of cruelty is taken to be programmatic within a liberal paradigm. In this contribution, two anthropologists triangulate cruelty as a concept with torture (Stade) and with love (Rapport). Treating the capability to practise cruelty and the liability to suffer from cruelty as universal aspects of a human condition, Stade and Rapport aim to instantiate the precise enactment of cruelty, firstly, and secondly, to propose a process of its social negation. CIA training manuals and quotidian practice within the British National Health Service are employed as illustrative materials.

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Section: Part Ii: the Impersonalism Of Lovementioning

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An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts

Stade

Rapport

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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“…Given that the Olympics is organised along the lines of nation-states and thus means an integrated Great Britain representative team, London 2012 thus acted as an opportunity for symbolically emphasising the united nature of 'Team GB' in sport, and the UK politically. For Boyle and Haynes (2014), the Games 'revealed a temporary suspension in the pressing debate on Scottish independence, with hegemonic Britishness and the symbolic flying of the Union Jack more in evident across the UK than had been witnessed in recent decades ' (p.91). This was particularly evident within the historical and contemporary portrayal of Britain within the London 2012 Olympic Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle, which was well-received, broadly speaking.…”

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Sport and secessionism in Scotland

Whigham¹

2020

Sport and Secessionism

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Following their resounding victory in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections which gave the pro-independent Scottish National Party (SNP) a parliamentary majority, the SNPled Scottish government entered into negotiations with the coalition Westminster government. These negotiations eventually resulted in the signing of the 'Edinburgh Agreement' in October 2012 which legislated for a single-question referendum before the end of 2014, in line with the SNP's preference for a referendum date in autumn 2014. However, much to the disappointment of the pro-independence 'Yes' campaign, the result of the 2014 Scottish independence saw 55.3% of the electorate voting 'No' to Scottish independence as opposed to 44.7% voting 'Yes'. Nonetheless, further succour for advocates of Scottish independence has been provided by the outcome of the UK-wide referendum on European Union (EU) membership which resulted in a victory for the anti-EU 'Leave' campaign which supported the UK's withdrawal from the EU, despite strong electoral support in Scotland to 'Remain' within the EU (McEwen, 2018). Regardless of the outcome, the very occurrence of the referendum on Scottish independence in September 2014 undoubtedly illustrated that political nationalism and

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“…Indeed, for Scotland, the London Olympic Games provided a context in which old alliances could be questioned and identities debated. In fact, while Boyle and Haynes (2014) noted that the Olympic Games ‘revealed a temporary suspension in the pressing debate on Scottish independence, with hegemonic Britishness and the symbolic flying of the Union Jack more in evident across the UK than had been witnessed in recent decades’ (p. 91), media representations of the political symbolism of the Glasgow Games illustrated that pro-union campaigners could equally use the event to reinforce the interconnections between the Games and notions of contemporary Britishness.…”

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‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media representations of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014

Black

Whigham

2017

Journalism

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This article critically reflects upon media coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, scrutinising the emergent discursive constructions of 'Britishness' and 'Scottishness' through an examination of both London-based (English) and Scotland-based publications. Drawing upon Dayan and Katz's (1992) portrayal of 'media events', the article explores how both events presented competing sites of symbolic struggle during a period of constitutional and political turmoil. Consideration is given to the existence of a 'hegemonic Britishness' in print media narratives of these events, as evident in the emergent connotations associated with 'British nationalism' and 'Scottish separatism'.3

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Watching the Games

Cited by 5 publications

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An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts

An anthropological investigation of cruelty and its contrasts

Sport and secessionism in Scotland

‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media representations of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014

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