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Държавна политика за развитие на физическата активност и спорта сред българското население 1944–1989 г.

Author(s): Irina Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2013

The new government in Bulgaria after September 9, 1944 turned sport and physical activity into state policy aiming to: improve the health of the nation under the conditions of increasing automation of industry; increase the working capacity and defense capabilities, as well as to broaden the base for recruitment of athletes capable of doing high performance sport. Requirements for physical activity covered all age groups and were implemented by organizing tourist excursions, mass exercises, local and republican competitions and para-military training. The study traces the organizational and methodological development of forms to mobilize the population in sports and tries to reveal how effective the policy was in respect to goals.

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“More-or-less body”: the social perception of normativity of the body in Poland

Author(s): Anna M. Kłonkowska,Agniezska Maj / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The article presents results of a study aimed at exploring social concepts associated with bodily ‘normativity’ and ‘passability’: the notion of normative body weight and attitude towards over- and underweight individuals. We were particularly interested in the common concepts and notions associated with normative body weight as well as possible reasons for rejection of people whose bodies do not fall within the socially shared knowledge of what the ‘right’ body is. The article presents results of a qualitative, interview-based research study conducted with the use of visual materials.

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HULIGANSTVO KRIMINAL I KAZNENA POLITIKA

Author(s): Maja Ilić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2016

Evidenced by frequent media reports about the riots and the violence that accompanies sporting events in the country. Mass beats on and off the court, resulting in tens of casualties "fans" led lads, have become commonplace in the region. However, this is just a "side effect" of other much deeper issues that affect society, and one of them is hooliganism. Ruined social norms and values as well as the deviant culture among young people, the main cause of the problem arising from the relationship between hooligans, politics and crime.

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ОСНОВНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ В ОБЛАСТИ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ И СПОРТА В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

Author(s): Yusup Digansheyevich Yakubov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2014

The paper analyzes central problems in the sphere of physical education and sports and their perception by the subjects of the Russian Federation when setting goals, formulating functions and tasks for the regional policy. Attention is focused on the problem of correspondence between the conceptual frameworks of sports policy at the regional and federal level. It is shown that the low efficiency of the current policy is largely due to the biased understanding of the problems in physical education and sports by regional authorities. In this situation interregional cooperation is required.

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İKİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI YILLARINDA KONYA’DA FUTBOL

Author(s): Çağatay Benhür,Nurgün Dursun / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 16/2012

Turkey can be considered the middle of the location, is the largest city in the country in terms of land area, historical and cultural heritage and for being one of the era's leading agricultural centers of Konya, the Second World War adventure, it is important for Turkey. The case of Konya, Turkey profile being removed from World War II, the sport should be one of the subjects to focus on. Any difficulties during the war, and Konya, Turkey shipwrecks, sports, I wonder how it took shape? In this study, between the years of 1939-1945 which was held in Konya city center and the districts of the decisions made about football matches and football will be examined in chronological order. In the light of the data obtained, an analysis of the social will be set out in Konya.

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AZERBAYCAN’IN SPOR TARİHİNDE HAYDAR ALİYEV AŞAMASI

Author(s): D.G. Guliyev / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2009

Makalede halkımızın milli lideri Haydar Aliyev’in direk başkanlığıyla ülkede beden eğitimi ve spor alanında yaptığı işlere ve sporcuların elde ettikleri başarılar anlatılıyor.

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Физическое воспитание советского населения в начале 1950-х гг. (на примере Пензенской области)

Author(s): Larisa Aleksandrovna Koroleva,Marina Mezinova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 04/2017

The article examines the state policy in the field of physical education and sports of the USSR population in the early 1950s at the regional level – in the Penza region. It had the task to train physically strong, healthy, motivated «builders of communism», capable of high-performance labor and defence of the Motherland. The implementation of this area of activity of the Soviet leadership in the region involved the Committee on Physical Culture and Sport under the Penza Regional Executive Committee. The key areas of activity were the preparation of the TRP icons; creation of sports sections and colleges of judges; organization and holding of sports competitions, etc.

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Postmoderna kao Aufhebung religije i tijela

Author(s): Bernard Harbaš / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2017

The article analyses the concept of postmodernity as the framework denoting philosophical and artistic understanding of contemporary era, especially in the second half of the twentieth century. This conceptual framework brakes with classical understandings of the world and life summoned in grandiose explanations which Lyotard calls Grand Stories, and as a principle introduces fragmentation and multitude of equally valuable and irreducible opinions. The article analyses the concept of religion as the view that aspires towards a unique and universal idea and message and its relation towards postmodern worldview, which inherits its ideas from relativism and incommensurability. Further on, the concept of the body and its status in postmodern thinking, especially its role in the construction of identity is being elaborated. Ending of the article strives to think through the relationship between religion and the body by indicating that, on one hand, contemporary culture of shaping the ideal is theological, and on the other, that Christianity is, first of all, a bodily phenomenon.

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BLURRY BORDERS. FROM HEROES TO CELEBRITIES

Author(s): István Povedák / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

The primary objective of this paper is to analyse the connection between historical heroes and celebrities in contemporary Hungary. According to my hypothesis the historical heroes and contemporary celebrities are in close relation. Their formations were generated by similar circumstances but their cult and its peculiarities accommodate to the parameters of a given historical period. Through the case study of the “best known Hungarian” Ferenc Puskás, the legendary soccer-player, I would like to examine whether the “hero patterns” of Joseph Campbell are present in the life story of an outstanding celebrity. Besides, this paper tries to introduce the forms of manifestation of his cult and at the same time to understand its effect on the life of fans and followers.

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RECENSIONES

Author(s): Zs. Visy,Katalin Jankovits,Imre Holl / Language(s): English,German Issue: 1/2011

Review of: 1. Sopron – Atlas zur ungarischen Stadtgeschichte 1 – Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns No. 1. Hrsg. von K. Szende. Sopron 2010. 87 Seiten, 39 Abbildungen, 43 Karten, 7 Ansichten. by: I. Holl 2. M. Egg–D. Kramer: Krieger, Feste, Totenopfer. Der letzte Hallstattfürst von Kleinklein in der Steiermark. Mosaiksteine. Forschungen am Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. Band 1. Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 2005. by: K. Jankovits 3. L. F. Vagalinski: Blood and entertainments. Sports and gladiatorial games in Hellenistic and Roman Thrace. Sofia 2009, 228 pages with illustrations. by: Zs. Visy

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„Футболен град“: футбол и памет в Павликени

Author(s): Iva Kyurkchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

When interpreted through the memory prism, football offers rich information about the attitudes and the processes in the socium and thus offers fruitful grounds for an ethnological and anthropological study. This study is based on interviews and autobiographical narratives which are an important source for the personal and the family histories of the heirs of the footballers and the fans of the Pavlikeni team.The football memory which was formed reveals a state of desired timelessness which unites past and present. The leading version, which is exhibited in the museum on the occasion of every celebration of a particular event from the history of the team, helps to form the cultural memory of the local population. Thus there is a coherent narrative that remains in the memory of the local people and allows to construct the cultural memory of the community as a one which corresponds to the identity sought by the group.

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Alex Rotas: Growing Old Competitively: Photographs of Masters Athletes

Author(s): Ľubica Voľanská / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Review of: ALEX ROTAS GROWING OLD COMPETITIVELY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF MASTERS ATHLETES Bristol: Alex Rotas Publishing, 2014, 69 p

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Excessive Masculinity: Boxer Narratives in Holocaust Literature

Author(s): Paweł Wolski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This article examines boxer narratives in Polish and international Holocaust literature in order to reveal the function of masculinity within the ontology of sports. Wolski uses the example of Roger Repplinger’s Leg dich, Zigeuner, a double biography of the German footballer Otto (“Tull”) Harder, member of the Waffen-SS, Wachmann and later com¬mander at the German concentration camps, and German Sinto boxer Johann “Rukeli” Trollmann, who faced discrimination on ethnic grounds and was later killed in one of the camps. The biographies of these two individuals show a marked difference in the way in which masculinity functioned within Nazi ideology. In the case of Harder, masculinity is an immanent category, while Trollmann’s masculinity appears as contingent. The boxer’s strategy of avoiding direct confrontation in the ring was perceived as “unmanly,” leading to his exclusion from the community of men.

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On Football Fanzines: A Communication Platform for Czech and Other European Football Fans

Author(s): Jan Lomíček / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The aim of this paper is a description of domestic football fanzine production in comparison with developments abroad. Zines from the scenes of football fans represent a key source for mapping their histories. While fanzine production is not a new topic in international critical literature, in the Czech Republic it has received only limited attention. The majority of football fanzines in the Czech Republic arose in the milieus of specific subcultural groups – football hooligans and ultras. From 1998 to 2008 the nationwide title Football Factory was the key zine surveying the scene, and it provided a kind of general communication platform for Czech football fans. In terms of their direct impact, Czech football fanzines were the products of a limited scene and a limited trend. As such, they remained quite marginal from the standpoint of overall Czech fanzine production.

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Čáslavová, Eva: Management a marketing sportu 21. století

Author(s): Bohumír Štědroň / Language(s): Czech Issue: 07/2021

Review of: Čáslavová, Eva (2020): Management a marketing sportu 21. století. Praha: Nakladatelství EKOPRESS. 218 p. ISBN 978-80-87865-62-0.

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THE NOTION OF “SPORTING EVENT” UNDER THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Author(s): Gheorghe Reniță / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The article analyzes the notion of “sporting event”, a notion used to describe some offences (i.e., manipulation in sports competitions, bribery, arranged bets) from the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova. In this sense, there were national and international normative provisions, judicial practice and specialized literature. Particular attention was paid to the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on the manipulation of sports competitions, to the practice of the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. Finally, it is concluded that notion of “sport” is associated with different words, e.g., match, event, competition. The content of these notions may differ from one country to another.

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Developing Managerial Approaches in Football Field

Author(s): Narcis RĂDUCAN / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Sport represents a particularly complex social phenomenon, whose social functions are very diverse. Today, sport is considered to be an important source of income, from an economic point of view, but also with a strong social impact. Therefore, it is necessary to be very well managed so that people can enjoy sports, through clear, fair, and consensual contracts, drawn up by experts in the field, which makes it possible, worldwide, in the field of sports in general and sports management, in particular, to have many opportunities for professional development. Football needs a professional management to build a healthy sports ecosystem in Romania, able to bring together the different stakeholders, through whose involvement the desired performances can be obtained both at the level of clubs and national teams.

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How Sport Helps Explain the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Author(s): Mike Dennis / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

While the exploitation of sport for the legitimation of state socialism in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has attracted widespread attention, the role of sport in the collapse of the one-party dictatorship is a little explored area. With particular reference to the 1980s, this article argues how sport, at elite and recreational level, both reflected and exacerbated tensions and conflicts in politics, the economy, culture and society. Although the deepening economic malaise, the courage of protesters on the streets of Leipzig and the shock waves triggered by Gorbachev’s reforms were primary agents in the fall of Communism, the prevalence of autonomous activities in East German sport and the ensuing challenge to authority contributed significantly to the socio-cultural defeat of GDR-style socialism. In effect, sport represented a way of saying ‘no’ that grew ever louder, more diverse and more widespread as the fateful autumn of 1989 approached.

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The Political Ethics of German Soccer Fans

Author(s): Arne Koch,John Hanson / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This article investigates the complex interplay between soccer fandom and political activism in Germany, emphasizing fan groups’ emergence as significant political stakeowners. It explores the evolution of fan engagement from sports-specific to broader societal issues, illustrating how supporters articulate dissent against commercialization and advocate for ethical governance within clubs. Through representative examples of various clubs, from Stuttgart to Hamburg and from Frankfurt to Munich, this article highlights fans’ responses to controversial policies like Monday fixtures, the European Super League, and human rights violations. Utilizing sociologist Tim Crabbe’s analytical framework that approaches soccer culture via distinct contexts, this study critiques enduring assumptions about political homogeneity in fan behavior and examines how select groups navigate their identities as quasi-political entities. The findings suggest that German soccer fans increasingly challenge traditional notions of belonging, positioning themselves as active participants in club governance and wider societal debates. This analysis contributes to understanding the intricate relationship between soccer fandom, political activism, and club governance in Germany.

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Olympic Games and Indigenous Peoples: Possible Change in Global Sport towards Indigenous Sovereignties?

Author(s): Lívia Šavelková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Indigenous peoples have appeared at the Olympic Games since the beginning of the twentieth century not only as participants of contemporary “human zoo” performances, but as competitors in regular sport disciplines. Since then, their presence at these mega-events has varied, in relation to local and transnational politics. Although the idea of sport as a tool for development and change has been widely spread through global NGOs and global events, such as the Olympics, sovereignty issues of Indigenous peoples in general remain unsolved. For decades, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted on Rule 50, which banned any sort of political protest during the Olympic Games. Recently, some global sport federations have begun to challenge this rule of the IOC in solidarity with the anti-racist Black Lives Matter movement. This paper seeks to address two main questions: How and if does the presence of the Indigenous peoples shape these largest global sport international events and their organizers? Does the presence of Indigenous peoples at the Olympics lead to potential changes of Olympic discourses related to Indigenous sovereignties? The paper argues that the IOC keeps shaping how Indigenous identities are portrayed, even though Indigenous participants work towards gaining the recognition of Indigenous sovereignties in relation to the Olympic structures.

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