scholarly journals Journalists and Olympic Athletes: A Norwegian Case Study of an Ambivalent Relationship

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Kristiansen ◽  
Dag Vidar Hanstad
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

scholarly journals Journalists and Olympic Athletes: A Norwegian Case Study of an Ambivalent Relationship

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Kristiansen ◽  
Dag Vidar Hanstad
Keyword(s):  
Constant Stress ◽  
The Other ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This case study explores the relationship between media and sport. More specifically, it examines the association (i.e., the contact and communication) between Norwegian journalists and athletes during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. Ten athletes and three journalists were interviewed about their relationship. To regulate and improve the journalist–athlete relationship during special events like the Olympics, media rules have been formulated. In regard to the on-site interactions, they accepted that they are working together where one was performing and the other reporting the event “back home.” While the best advice is to be understanding of the journalists’ need for stories and inside information, the media coverage was perceived as a constant stress factor for the athletes. However, because of the media rules the athletes were able to keep their distance but one athlete did comment: “You will not survive if you take it personally.”

scholarly journals Disrupting institutional reproduction? How Olympic athletes challenge the stability of the Olympic Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-37
Author(s):  
Maximilian Seltmann
Keyword(s):  
Elite Athlete ◽  
Punctuated Equilibrium Theory ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
The Stability

SummaryThe recent years have seen a surge in elite athlete activism. This article examines how Olympic athletes are currently challenging the stability of central institutions of the Olympic Movement as collective political actors. The study builds on explanations of stability and change stemming from punctuated equilibrium theory and path dependency. Applying a multiple mini case study design, it is first illustrated how these mechanisms have been in play in the reproduction and disruption of historic Olympic institutions. The main analysis then shows how Olympic athletes, through their different organizational forms, challenge institutions that are detrimental to their interest. The findings illustrate that Olympic athletes have increased their power resources and apply strategies to defy institutions, which are reproduced on the basis of path-dependent explanations. In doing so, athletes have the potential to severely destabilize the system if their interests remain unaccounted for by those governing the Olympic Movement.

scholarly journals Advocacy Research on Homophobia in Education: Claims-Making, Trauma Construction and the Politics of Evidence

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Objective Research ◽  
Gain Media

Sociology has an ambivalent relationship with advocacy research because the benefits of participation and engagement must be balanced with concerns about bias. The current study uses 10 recent research reports on homophobia in British educational settings, written and funded by campaigning charities, as a case study of contemporary advocacy research. Presenting a sociological analysis of these documents and adopting a social problems approach, claims-making processes in the reports are documented and significant methodological and analytical flaws are identified. Instead of objective research, these reports are campaigning documents that seek to gain media coverage and influence policy. Implications for how the reports should be used as resources for research and social policy are examined, and a more nuanced and sophisticated approach to engaging with advocacy research is called for.

Catch the Feeling of Flying: Guided Walks Through a Trampoline Olympic Development Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Seanor ◽  
Robert J. Schinke ◽  
Natalia B. Stambulova ◽  
Kristoffer Henriksen ◽  
Dave Ross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
Team Interactions ◽  
Assistant Coach ◽  
Conversational Interviews

Olympic-medal performances represent peak accomplishments in athlete development. Seanor, Schinke, Stambulova, Ross, and Kpazai identified environmental factors in a high-performance Canadian trampoline sport environment that developed decorated Olympic medalists. The current intrinsic case study was authored to further highlight the idiosyncrasies of a high-performance trampoline environment (re)presenting stories garnered from this localized Canadian sport environment. Through guided walks, a mobile method of conversational interviews, three contextual experts who are engaged in the development of Olympic athletes provided tours of their sport environment. Each contextual expert’s guided walk played out uniquely in relation to his or her ascribed role (i.e., Olympic coach, assistant coach, and Olympic champion). Three main themes were identified through interpretive thematic analysis: creating lift (subthemes: facility design, sport-culture paragons), providing a tailwind (subthemes: establishing athlete–coach partnerships, team interactions), and soaring onto the Olympic podium (subthemes: preparing athletes to be untethered, competitive collaboration). Each theme is presented through three portrait vignettes, with discrete vantages derived from each contextual expert to illuminate the context from idiosyncratic ascribed roles within the environment. These stories create a rich (re)presentation of a high-performance sport environment through the interplay of the contextual experts’ narratives, their surrounding context, and their Olympic-podium accomplishments.

“A Blank Slate”: Preparing for Tokyo 2021 During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. S1-1-S1-7
Author(s):  
Nick Wadsworth ◽  
Adam Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Referral Process ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Strength And Conditioning ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Blank Slate ◽  
Strength And Conditioning Coach ◽  
Olympic Athlete

This article presents a case study of an applied consultancy experience with WL, an Olympic athlete preparing for Tokyo 2021. WL sought psychological support after decreases in performance and well-being forced them to consider their future as an athlete. COVID-19 and the lockdown of the United Kingdom were highly influential to the consultancy process, providing WL with the opportunity to explore their identity in the absence of sport. WL framed their emergence from the lockdown as a “Blank Slate,” which was a critical moment allowing them to “find themselves on and off the mat.” The sport psychologist’s existential philosophy is presented and discussed in detail. Furthermore, reflections are provided by WL’s strength and conditioning coach about the referral process and by WL themself about the efficacy of the interventions. The importance of supporting both the person and the performer when working with aspiring Olympic athletes is also discussed.

When I Was a Swahili Woman: The Possibilities and Perils of “Going Native” in a Culture of Secrecy

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 674-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Daly Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Going Native

Combining evocative and analytic autoethnography, I explore the ambiguous and ambivalent relationship between conversion, “going native,” and socialization through a case study of my own experience. I examine fieldnotes written during my two-year marriage to a Zanzibari man and audio recordings from my linguistic ethnographic fieldwork among Zanzibari women during the same period, not only revealing my own previously concealed secrets but also arguing for the value of such revelations. I demonstrate how I was lured into “becoming Swahili” because of the relationships “Swahiliness” enabled me to build with my interlocutors in the field and thus the access to ethnographic secrets it gave me. Paradoxically, doing so socialized me into a culture of secrecy that not only restricted my research but also endangered me. I conclude by drawing parallels to a culture of secrecy in academia, where norms about what is appropriate to include in scholarship prevented me, until recently, from sharing the negative aspects of “going native” through marriage and conversion.

scholarly journals TH. HOBBES’ VISIBLE RHETORIC: A CASE STUDY OF HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS / T. HOBBESO VIZUALIOJI RETORIKA: POLITINIŲ IDĖJŲ ISTORIJOS ATVEJO ANALIZĖ

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Béla Mester
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Cambridge School

In the topic of this article, it is the early modern intellectual history; it will be offered at first an overview of the approaches of the parallelism between the researches of words, pictures, and gestures, based on the author's personal experiences as a researcher of this epoch. The first examples will be several loci of English classics, John Milton, and John Locke; then it will be mentioned the significance of the methodology of the “Iconic Turn,” with the concept of “pictorial (speech) act”, and with the history of religious art. At the end of this overview it will be mentioned briefly the methodological contribution of the Cambridge school of intellectual history, and that of the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe of Reinhart Koselleck. Second part of this article will offer a historical example from the early modern age. The first one is an analysis of several details of Thomas Hobbes’ ambivalent relationship with the antique tradition of rhetoric, and their consequences for the visual sphere. Šio straipsnio tema – moderniųjų laikų pradžios intelektualinė istorija. Pirmoje jo dalyje pateikiama tarp mokslinių tyrinėjimų, skirtų žodžiams, vaizdams ir gestams, susiklostančių paralelių traktavimo bendroji samprata. Vienoks ar kitoks jų traktavimas priklauso nuo autoriaus, kaip toje epochoje gyvenančio tyrėjo, asmeninių patirčių. Pirmieji pavyzdžiai – tai keletas anglų klasikų, tokių kaip Johnas Miltonas ir Johnas Locke'as. Paskui pabrėžiama „vaizdinio posūkio“ metodologijos „vaizdavimo (kalbėjimo) akto“ koncepto, religinio meno istorijos svarba. Galiausiai trumpai paminimas Kembridžo mokyklos indėlis į intelektualinę istoriją ir Reinharto Kosellecko Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Antroje straipsnio dalyje pateikiamas istorinis pavyzdys iš ankstyvosios moderniosios epochos. Pirmiausia imamasi Thomaso Hobbeso ambivalentiško santykio su antikine retorikos tradicija keleto detalių analizės, o paskui aptariama šio santykio įtaka vizualumo sričiai.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

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