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Olympic solidarity: global order and the diffusion of modern sport between 1961 to 1980
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posted on 2010-11-04, 16:35 authored by Mansour S. Al-TauqiThis thesis examines the emergence of Olympic sport aid policy in the early phase of its
establishment in 1961 with the founding of the Commission For International Olympic
Aid (CIOA) and the Olympic Solidarity (OS) in the early 1970s. The study aims to explore
the global process of cultural flows of Olympism and modern sport, and the international
relations involved in constructing, modifying or resisting the Olympic 'message'. A
tentative conceptualisation of 'aid donors' (core and semi-periphery) and the 'aid
recipients' (peripheral states) is outlined in relation to the global sport interaction
between nation states.
At the macro level, it is clear that the bi-political order of the Cold War, the
decolonisation process, and the development aid projects provided to the newly
independent countries in Africa and Asia influenced agents' approaches in forming the
sport aid policy and the promotion of Olympic institutions. At the meso level, the IOC
relations with UNESCO, IFs, regional games and National Olympic Committees and the
emergence of hyper nationalism, commercialism and professionalism impinge on the
creation of the global sport aid programme that emphasises the hegemony of the
Olympic movement.
The research subscribes to critical realism as its ontological and epistemological base
and the principal method employed to investigate is a form of qualitative content
analysis using a protocol drawn from ethnographic content analysis. Inductive and
deductive techniques were utilised to analyse 355 official documents and agents'
correspondence in English, French and German gathered from Olympic Museum archives
and facilitated by the application of QSR NUD*IST software for qualitative data analysis.
A socio-economic and political account of the postcolonial era is provided as viewed
through 'prism' of modernisation, cultural imperialism, dependency and figuration
theories. The thesis provides an approach to the evaluation of the global diffusion of
sport and Olympism through the aid programmes revealing complex responses and
engagement with global processes, contextualised by (in some ways) homogenous and
(in others) heterogeneous nature of the global sport.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Publisher
© M.S. Al-TauqiPublication date
2003Notes
Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.EThOS Persistent ID
uk.bl.ethos.289555Language
- en