2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 16: Sport and Identities 2

8 Jun 2022, 11:00

Description

Chair: John Horne
Room: N16, Building C Level 3

52. Development and social significance of LGBT+ sports clubs in the Netherlands 1980-2020

Agnes Elling

08/06/2022, 11:00

At the turn of the millenium the emergence of gay&lesbian (later lgbt+) sports clubs increased in the Netherlands, in the run-up towards and as a legacy of the Amsterdam Gay Games 1998. Apart from this katalysing international sports event, the foundation of gay sports initiatives were influenced by a flourishing activist/political gay rights movement lgbt+ subculture since the 1980ies. Sport...

53. Sámi sport disciplines – traditional symbolism in the present

Eivind Skille

08/06/2022, 11:20

Objectives
This paper explores the relationship between different groups of the same Indigenous people and discusses if and how sport activities originating from traditional industry symbolizes the Indigenous people as a whole. The reindeer symbolizes the Indigenous people of the North Calotte (the northern part of the Nordic countries Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the Kola Peninsula...

54. Constructing race/ethnicity through televised football: an audience study of Polish youths

Arne van Lienden , Jacco van Sterkenburg

08/06/2022, 11:40

A rich body of academic literature in various national contexts has explored how commentators and journalists of televised football (re)construct racial/ethnic stereotypes, most notably that of the ‘natural Black athlete’. There has been less scholarly attention to how audiences actively interpret such racialized stereotypes, especially beyond the Anglosphere. From a cultural studies...

55. Sports media, ideology and national identity in Australian men and women’s cricket

Michael Ward

08/06/2022, 12:00

Sport and sports media are powerful ideological forces in the construction of national identities. For decades, women’s sports coverage was virtually non-existent, with enduring marginalisation and discrimination. Despite recent increases, women’s sports media still lags men’s sport, with pandemic challenges that potentially undermine gains.
This paper examines women’s sports media coverage...