Olympism And Nation Building From A Cultural Perspective
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Olympism And Nation Building From A Cultural Perspective
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Author : Jialing Luo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Olympism And Nation Building From A Cultural Perspective written by Jialing Luo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
The research paper discusses the cultural aspects of the Olympics and that of the host city Beijing in terms of its urban transformation from an imperial landscape characterised by siheyuan and hutong to a modern image incorporating features such as avant-garde architecture and skyscrapers. It attempts to identify the driving forces underneath these physical changes. In particular, based on the traditional neighbourhood of South Gong and Drum, the paper analyses how this area was redeveloped to represent Beijing culture during the 2008 Olympics; what kind of culture was presented; and how this affects the local residents. In a broader context, the paper examines the reinvented ‘new culture’ of Beijing, which, while connecting itself with other homogenous world cities, largely cut itself off from its own irreplaceable past and tradition. Rather than organically developed and massively participated, which a culture is supposed to be according to Raymond Williams, this new culture is a political discourse of state-planned modernisation. The paper hopes to draw attention to the following points: 1. The cultural dimension of the Olympiad forms ‘a spiritual component’ of the modern Olympics, replacing the religious aspect of the ancient Games involving the worship of Zeus. While the cultural Olympiad was essential to fostering a sense of unity among the city-states of ancient Greece, the Modern Olympics are intended to promote a common identity for humanity on the basis of respecting and celebrating differences, revering antiquity and tradition, and full participation. 2. Hutong was built at the same time as Beijing was built from scratch by the Mongols in the 13th century, when Kublai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan Dynasty, conquered China and chose the site of the present-day Beijing for its capital, Dadu. Beijing was a Mongol creation, but on the basis of Chinese ideas about how an imperial capital city should be laid out, which was prescribed in the classics Rites of Zhou more than two thousand years ago. 3. The imperial walled city Beijing and its hutong that gave rise to a symmetric layout of old Beijing was meticulously arranged (in terms of city walls, orientation, central north-south axis, grid pattern, etc) to reflect traditional beliefs and cosmology. They could be perceived as a value system with profound meanings that persisted for a few hundred years through the Mongol Yuan (1271-1368), Chinese Ming (1368 -1644), Manchu Qing (1644 -1912). Hutong and old Beijing also survived at least half of the 20th century through the Republican Era (1912-1949) until the New China, when they started to be demolished. No matter in terms of architecture and urban planning, or of traditions of a people, hutong neighbourhoods were unique and irreplaceable historical and cultural heritage that should be preserved. 4. The fact that modernity is put in place at the sacrifice of a precious cultural legacy diminishes its reception and popularity. There is no doubt that Beijing would have been much more fascinating to foreigners if its historically constructed culture and tradition had been adequately preserved and exhibited. 5. As discussed, the ‘new Beijing’ is a modern Beijing, and the new Beijing culture is a state-planned modern culture. A new culture, when invented as an ideological tool to showcase and create an intended image and status, bears no value and depth, and runs the risk of becoming what Debord (1995: 131) describes as “the meaning of an insufficiently meaningful world”, in which we all live. 6. While recognising the rapid improvements in infrastructure and facilities, the modernization of Beijing at the expense of its irreplaceable traditions and heritage is worth debating in a wider social context beyond academia and the Olympic Movement. 7. The new image of Beijing presented during the Olympics is open to diverse interpretations. What is certain is that while the construction of Beijing eight hundred years ago was part of the imperial programme of the Mongols (Steinhardt 1988: 72), transforming Beijing today is meant to symbolise the return of the Chinese empire. The emergence of new Beijing is once again a political discourse. Chinese traditions were once the best resort for Kublai Khan to legitimate his alien rule in China. Today’s shift from this tradition to the modern practice of the architectural exploitation of city space is a contemporary version of such nation-building. To conclude, as widely acknowledged, the Beijing 2008 Olympics was a success. Its ceremonies, organization, security work and athletes’ performance were all impressive. The Olympics-related education in terms of Olympism, the Olympic Movement and the history of the Olympics, etc was also well arranged and conducted. It was without a doubt that China made enormous efforts to cooperate with the IOC to deliver a high quality Olympics, together with its accompanying cultural and educational programmes. However, this should not mask the problems that I discuss here, since reverence for tradition and heritage, acknowledging and cherishing a unique culture to keep it alive, and the participation of all are important aspects of general humanity essential to both Olympism and nation-building. A nation draws its strength from a culture rooted in history and tradition. Nation-building is, to a great extent, a cultural matter.
Olympism And Nation Building From A Cultural Perspective
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Author : Jialing Luo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Olympism And Nation Building From A Cultural Perspective written by Jialing Luo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Internationalism In The Olympic Movement
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Author : Holger Preuss
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-04-19
Internationalism In The Olympic Movement written by Holger Preuss and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-19 with Social Science categories.
Papers presented at a conference held at Universit'at Mainz on May 22, 2009.
Mexico City S Olympic Games
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Author : Axel Elías
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-25
Mexico City S Olympic Games written by Axel Elías and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-25 with History categories.
This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for the Olympics in Mexico and especially the year 1968 highlight the multiplicity of voices behind these exercises. Beyond the government and associated networks, the citizenry also used this mega-event to present an idea of Mexico to the world and thus reshape citizenship and nationhood. This study takes a bottom-up approach to look at the citizenry’s experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games, both the shared nationalistic values and the areas of conflict.
Olympic Legacies Intended And Unintended
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Author : J A Mangan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Olympic Legacies Intended And Unintended written by J A Mangan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan dimensions. In the course of its epic history, the Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies, from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics represent an essential component of modern global history. The Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
The Olympic Movement And The Middle East And North Africa Region
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Author : Mahfoud Amara
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-09
The Olympic Movement And The Middle East And North Africa Region written by Mahfoud Amara and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Science categories.
This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It seeks to capture how political and cultural nation-state building and economic transformations are impacting the region’s engagement (and disengagement) with the Olympic movement and the Olympic Games, as well as Paralympic sports. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
National Identity And Global Sports Events
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Author : Alan Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2006-01-26
National Identity And Global Sports Events written by Alan Tomlinson and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-26 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage.
The East Asian Olympiads 1934 2008
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Author : William Tsutsui
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2011-08-15
The East Asian Olympiads 1934 2008 written by William Tsutsui and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Social Science categories.
This interdisciplinary volume, the first to focus on the collective East Asian Olympic experience, reveals the Games' important role in the creation of a modern Asian identity in a world—and a global sporting culture—still dominated by the West.
Olympism The Global Vision
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Author : Boria Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Olympism The Global Vision written by Boria Majumdar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political; it is politics. It is also culture and art. This collaboration is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympism and the Olympic movement in the modern context has been, and continues to be, socially relevant and politically important. Studies focus on national encounters with Olympism and the Olympic movement, with equal attention paid to document the growing nexus between sports and the media; sports reportage; as well as women and sports. Olympism asserts that the Olympic movement was, and is, of central importance to twentieth and twenty-first century societies. Finally, the collection demonstrates that the essence of Olympism and the Olympic movement is important only in so far as it affects societies surrounding it. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
The Sovereign Colony
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Author : Antonio Sotomayor
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2016-02
The Sovereign Colony written by Antonio Sotomayor and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02 with History categories.
Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in so doing nurtured powerful ideas of nationalism. By examining how the Olympic movement developed in Puerto Rico, Antonio Sotomayor illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that evolved within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures--and the United States' claim to democratic values--to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status. The Sovereign Colony describes the surprising negotiations that gave rise to Olympic sovereignty in a colonial nation, a unique case in Latin America, and uses Olympic sports as a window to view the broader issues of nation building and identity, hegemony, postcolonialism, international diplomacy, and Latin American-U.S. relations.