2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 38: Other Issues Related to the Sociology of Sport 2

Jun 8, 2022, 3:30 PM

Description

Chair: Ulrike Burrmann
Room: N15, Building C Level 3

124. Globalization and the reproduction of class: parenting and the leisure football in Taiwanese families

Ying Chiang

6/8/22, 3:30 PM

The aim of this essay is to examine the discourses of leisure football and parenting and discover the ideal parenting and its implications in class through the practice and consumption of children’s leisure football in the age of globalization in Taiwan.
By adopting textual analysis as a method, it is found that children’s leisure football in Taiwan has been through a “leisurizing” process...

125. Post-/colonial continuities in sport - white policies of discovery and conquest in surfing and climbing

Lara Kronenbitter

6/8/22, 3:50 PM

Surfing and climbing are shaped by their “entangled histories” - and thus by imperialism, colonialism, capitalist commodification, the relationship to nature and limited resources. Therefore, the contribution is devoted to a power analysis of sports. Based on sports sociological, post-/colonial, and visual turn approaches in political science, the contribution explores the question of...

126. Decolonization through children and youth outdoor activities at indigenous Sàmi festivals in Norway

Bente Ovedie Skogvang, Prisca Bruno Massao

6/8/22, 4:10 PM

This paper focuses on how outdoor activities for children and youth at Sàmi/indigenous festivals in North Norway might contribute to the development of a holistic intersectional cultural understanding and decolonization processes. Through indigenous paradigm and methodology (Koukkanen, 2000; Smith, 2010), we highlight how Sami/indigenous holistic ethnic identities are expressed through various...

127. Research in Sociology of Sports in India and possibilities for the Western World

Sanjay Tewari

This paper focuses on the state of Sociology of Sport in India, a country with a population of 1.3 billion and a sport culture that seems to show particular characteristics, but remains relatively under-researched. This could offer an abundance of opportunities for Indian scholars, as well as foreign ones. The objective of the paper is to reveal some of these specificities of the Indian...