2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 17: Sport and Power Relations 1

Jun 8, 2022, 11:00 AM

Description

Chair: Tamas Doczi
Room: A3M04, Building A Level 3

56. Games, social fields and morality – explaining structural dimensions in Norwegian sport

Nils Asle Bergsgard, Frode Telseth

6/8/22, 11:00 AM

In Norwegian sport there are political and ideological tensions between a deeply held belief in ‘sport for all’ as a fundamental basis for all sporting activity and an emphasis on elite sport that aims to achieve great results in a wide variety of sports. Immediately, it seems like a struggle to achieve this dual task, still, dealing with this balance between fostering democracy and fostering...

57. Harmless racism? How racism in junior football might be considered harmless through its anti-racism policies

Nathan D'Hoore, Jeroen Scheerder

6/8/22, 11:20 AM

Racism is unmistakable present in club-organized junior football and is also identified in other sports and age categories. This has not gone unnoticed by policymakers. They try to ban racism with different initiatives and punishments. These concern overt racism and direct racial language that is universally seen as problematic. However, racism under the guise of fun, humor and positive...

58. Preventive Bodies? Subjectivation in Health Promotion Programmes between Individual Responsibility and Subversive Practices

Pia Kühnemann

Racism is unmistakable present in club-organized junior football and is also identified in other sports and age categories. This has not gone unnoticed by policymakers. They try to ban racism with different initiatives and punishments. These concern overt racism and direct racial language that is universally seen as problematic. However, racism under the guise of fun, humor and positive...