Bps2011 dividing, uniting? sc
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This document discusses several perspectives on the role of sport in society. It notes that while sport can provide a common shared experience globally, it is also often tied to national identity and rivalry. Some argue that serious competitive sport is akin to war, prioritizing hatred and violence over fair play. Others see potential for sport to foster intercultural understanding, but also acknowledge it can be dominated by commercial and media interests. The document also examines views that the Olympics, while promoting ideals of peace, are steeped in nationalism and racial supremacy.
Bps2011 dividing, uniting? sc
- 1. Uniting, Dividing? BPS2011 20 October
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- 5. Sport as a local social occasion National leagues and identity Global polity and economy
- 6. ... sport provides a commonality of experience on a global scale that is extremely rare ... Laker (2003)
- 8. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. Orwell (1945)
- 9. Peaceful coexistence Intercultural understanding Hyper commercialism Mass media dominance
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- 12. Olympism as an antidote?
- 13. Despite voluminous Olympic rhetoric stressing the noble, humanistic and pacifistic character of the Games, ever since their reinvention at the end of the 19th century by the French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Modern Olympics have been steeped in nationalistic and ethno-racial supremacist sentiment. Sugden (2007)
- 16. Companies including British Airways and BP are among sponsors who have paid £700 million to become official partners of the 2012 Games.
- 17. Streakers to Face Fines at London 2012 for Potential Ambush Marketing
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- 22. you do make things worse by sending forth a team of eleven men, labelled as national champions, to do battle against some rival team, and allowing it to be felt on all sides that whichever nation is defeated will “lose face”. Orwell (1945)
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