England expects: English newspapers’ narratives about the English football team in the 2006 World Cup

Vincent, John; Kian, Edward M.; Pedersen, Paul M.; Kuntz, Aaron M.; Hill, John S.

doi:10.1177/1012690209360084

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“…Een overwinning is niet eens noodzakelijk voor expressieve 'getuigenissen' van nationale identificatie, zoals 'vlaggen' en het kleden in nationale kleuren. Deelname aan internationale kampioenschappen in nationale volkssporten (zoals voetbal in veel landen) voldoet reeds om een doorgaans veelal slapend nationaal bewustzijn te laten 'herontwaken' en, met hulp van de media, uitingen van nationale trots teweeg te brengen, (Maquire & Poulton, 1999;Vincent et al, 2010;Tuck, 2003).…”

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“…Zij kunnen de 'sleeping memories' aan een verloren gewaande gezamenlijke nationale identiteit weer tot leven wekken (Maguire & Poulton, 1999). Niet alleen in Nederland, maar ook in andere landen stijgt de mediaaandacht met elk voetbalkampioenschap en daarmee ook de expressieve nationale identificaties onder de bevolking (Vincent et al, 2010).…”

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“…Achteraf blijken ook mensen die vooraf geen enkele intentie hadden om de verrichtingen van de Nederlandse sporters op een international sportevenement te volgen, 'gezwicht' te zijn voor de niet te ontkomen media-aandacht en het oranje-enthousiasme van vrienden of buren. Ten tijde van de wereldkampioenschappen voetbal lijken ook alle serieuze en meer kritische media te worden meegezogen in een oranje droom (Vincent et al, 2010) en in een ongekend geloof en vertrouwen in de brede maatschappelijke 'meer-dan-voetbal' baten zoals sociale eenheid en verbondenheid (Dauncy & Hare, 2000). Terwijl in het gemondialiseerde voetbal landelijke speelstijlen steeds minder onderscheidend of zelfs verdwenen zijn, wordt de behoefte aan en expressie van nationale identificaties, ook onder de noemer van 'unieke speelstijl', alleen maar groter.…”

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Topsport als motor voor nationale trots?

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Dool³

2012

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Topsport als motor voor nationale trots?

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2012

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“…Stemple (1981: 119) explains that content analysis is 'a formal system for doing something that we all do informally rather frequently' with various techniques available to the researcher (David and Sutton, 2011;Silverman, 2003). Previous content and discourse analyses of media coverage have identified their role in agenda-setting (Blain, 2003;Wanta, 2008), with quantitative and qualitative approaches showing gender and racial biases in media coverage (Bishop, 2007;Kian et al, 2009;King, 2007;Mackay, 2012;Messner et al, 2000;Millward, 2008;Vincent, 2004;Vincent et al, 2002Vincent et al, , 2010.…”

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Representations of sport in the revolutionary socialist press in Britain, 1988–2012

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2013

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper considers how sport presents a dualism to those on the far left of the political spectrum. A long-standing, passionate debate has existed on the contradictory role played by sport, polarised between those who reject it as a bourgeois capitalist plague and those who argue for its reclamation and reformation. A case study is offered of a political party that has consistently used revolutionary Marxism as the basis for its activity and how this party, the largest in Britain, addresses sport in its publications. The study draws on empirical data to illustrate this debate by reporting findings from three socialist publications. When sport did feature it was often in relation to high profile sporting events with a critical tone adopted and typically focused on issues of commodification, exploitation and alienation of athletes and supporters. However, readers' letters, printed in the same publications, revealed how this interpretation was not universally accepted, thus illustrating the contradictory nature of sport for those on the far left.Keywords: capitalism, Marxism, socialism, Socialist Workers Party, working class IntroductionA long-standing, passionate debate over sport has existed amongst those on the revolutionary left, polarised between those who reject sport as a bourgeois capitalist plague and those who seek to enjoy sport sui generis and/or seek to use it to advance socialist ideas. A popular perception exists which sees the revolutionary left dismiss sport as a site of, and for, excessive nationalism, sexism, racism, homophobia and class bias; yet, there is another perspective which argues for the reclamation and reformation of sport. However, until now, much of the debate has been based on abstract theory and lacking reference to empirical data. This study seeks to correct this by offering an empirical informed discussion on how sport is viewed by the largest party on the revolutionary left in contemporary Britain.The paper focuses on a political party that has consistently used revolutionary Marxist ideology as a basis for its activity. A content and discourse analysis of three socialist publications, over a 30 year period, tracks the level and nature of sports-themed coverage. The empirical material is then used to inform a discussion between those who reject sport and those who seek to reform it. With interest in the relationship between capitalism and sport continuing to attract academic attention (see Boykoff, 2013;Collins, 2013;Lavalette, 2013), this paper identifies an organisation that has, unapologetically, consistently focused on the politics of class and, resisting the turn to culture, postmodernism or identity politics, remained firmly within the tradition of class-based, revolutionary Marxism. It begins with an assessment of the academic and popular literature representing the different leftist positions towards sport. The British Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is then located on the political spectrum before identifying the data sources and methods used. A series of vignet...

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“…'We' learn about 'our' national character, 'our' history and 'our' society via national habitus codes (Lee and Maguire 2011;Maguire and Burrows 2005;Maguire et al 1999aMaguire et al , 1999bMaguire and Poulton 1999;Maguire and Tuck, 2005;Poulton 2004;Vincent, et al 2010). …”

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