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MORELLATO, MASSIMO. "Reputational capital and olympic events: a case study of whistler live!" Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/29578.
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Mega events such as the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games present unique opportunities to increase the economic and social capital required by destinations to be competitive on the global tourism stage. Engaging Games and community stakeholders in the networks needed to organize and deliver such events is central to creating sustained and positive legacies. Network building and maintenance can occur at a variety of levels and scales. Effective and sustained networks depend on and are shaped by the social and reputational capital created through the process of managing various dimensions of the event. One of the more recent Games’ dimensions used as a vehicle for creating social capital is the Cultural Olympiad.
This dissertation creates and tests the utility of a conceptual model in identifying how event organizers strategically select stakeholders and nurture network relations to build the reputational capital needed for sustained competitiveness. It builds this model based on premises and principles emerging from literature related to corporate social responsibility, social capital development, reputational capital creation, Olympic mega-event legacies, tourism destination branding and community based sustainability planning. The study tests the model’s usefulness through a case study of the stakeholders, networks, and outcomes created in the development and delivery of Whistler’s portion of the 2010 Winter Games Cultural Olympiad – ‘Whistler Live!’. It explores the ways in which Whistler engaged its stakeholders and partners so as not only to meet its immediate Olympic goals, but also to contribute the longer term reputation and sustainability of the resort community.
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Cahill, Shane. ""The Friendly Games"? the Melbourne Olympic Games in Australian culture, 1946-1956 /." Connect to this title online, 1989. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2401.
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Melbourne is making a concerted bid to obtain the centenary 1996 Olympic Games. While much of its bid is occupied with explanations of the city’s ability to meet the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) requirements, it is underpinned by a common theme that the city possesses a unique quality of “Friendliness”. (For complete abstract open document)
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Teixeira, Maria Isaura Pereira Gomes. "British identity and London's campaign to host the 2012 Olympics." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2855.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesO presente trabalho propõe-se analisar a campanha Britânica para acolher os Jogos Olímpicos de 2012 bem como a Apresentação de Londres 2012 na Cerimónia de Encerramento dos Jogos Olímpicos de Beijing, em 2008. Será abordada a complexidade dos ícones apresentados, bem como os motivos que estiveram na base desta opção. A Apresentação de Londres 2012 centra-se, claramente, em ícones que, mais do que a Grã-Bretanha, identificam a cidade de Londres ao longo de oito minutos assemelhando-se a um anúncio publicitário. Assim sendo, Londonness e Britishness serão explorados como dois conceitos possivelmente diferentes. Às questões teóricas relacionadas com a identidade seguir-se-á um capítulo dedicado à contextualização histórica dos dois momentos em que Londres recebeu os Jogos Olímpicos – 1908 e 1948. Face aos ideais dos Jogos Olímpicos da era moderna e às estratégias de marketing que a Apresentação de Londres 2012 sugere, apresentam-se os presumíveis argumentos que persuadiram o Comité Olímpico a eleger a cidade de Londres em detrimento das rivais Paris, Madrid, Nova York e Moscovo. O conjunto de ícones utilizados nesta apresentação será discutido na pluralidade de significados que sugerem. Finalmente, questionam-se as significativas estratégias utilizadas e que indiciam que os Jogos Olímpicos são um mega-evento politizado, como tantos outros, com características que apelam a uma população global e massificada. Acentuar Londonness em detrimento de Britishness poderá, assim, ter sido uma estratégia de marketing mais eficaz, uma vez que Londres, ao contrário da Grã-Bretanha, é mais facilmente identificável por ser uma cidade do mundo. A astuciosa campanha e a Apresentação de Londres 2012 foram inteiramente concebidas para consumo externo. ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to analyse the British campaign to host the 2012 Olympics and the London 2012 Presentation during the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It will look at the complexity of the iconic images used, as well as the reasons for the choice of these over others. This presentation clearly focuses on symbols that, rather than Britain, identify London in an eight-minute presentation resembling an advertisement. Hence, Londonness and Britishness will be explored as two possibly distinctive concepts. Theoretical questions relating to identity will be followed by a chapter briefly covering the historical background of the1908 and 1948 London Olympics. Considering the ideals upon which the modern Olympic Games are based and the marketing strategies the London 2012 Presentation seems to have used, I will attempt to present the probable reasons that led the Olympic Committee to choose the London bid over its rivals: Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow. I will also discuss the set of icons used in the presentation for the range of significations they suggest. Finally, I will question the meaningfulness of the Olympic Games as a highly politicized mega-sporting event that, like so many others, is aimed at channels of global mass consumption. Stressing Londonness over Britishness would then seem to have suggested a more effective marketing strategy, for London as opposed to Britain, could more plausibly offer itself as a place belonging to the world. The skill of the campaign and the London 2012 Presentation was that it was wholly made for external consumption.
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Gonçalves, Gabriela de Carvalho Monteiro. "O significado da dor em atletas da ginástica rítmica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39136/tde-20122017-112815/.
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O desempenho no esporte de alto rendimento está associado a situações de desgastes físicos e psicológicos extremos tanto em treinamentos como em competições. A dor é um atributo constante na vida destes atletas e trata-se de uma experiência sensorial e emocional avaliada muitas vezes como negativa, associada a uma lesão real ou não que abrange aspectos fisiológicos, sociais e psíquicos. Assim, estudos com a intenção de dar significado a dor na percepção dos próprios atletas devem levar em conta a cultura do esporte e da modalidade, pois a cultura é um complexo de habilidades ou hábitos adquiridos pelo sujeito enquanto membro de um grupo social, fornecendo dados da identidade do ser atleta. Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar como as atletas olímpicas de Ginástica Rítmica experienciaram a dor e os seus significados em sua carreira esportiva. Para tanto foram investigadas as 18 atletas brasileiras que participaram dos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão em diferentes edições, sob a ótica dos Estudos Culturais, inspiração teórica para pensar produções culturais e as práticas sociais. A decisão por investigar esse grupo se estruturou por ser uma modalidade com grande dificuldade técnica, de profissionalização precoce e alto nível de desempenho, alcançados ainda na adolescência. A exigência excessiva e prematura do corpo, o envolvimento com as rotinas e o alto nível de dificuldade dos exercícios praticados predispõe as atletas a um maior risco de dor e sofrimento. O método utilizado foi a narrativa biográfica que proporcionou apreender por meio das memórias desse grupo de atletas a compreensão do significado da dor no esporte e na modalidade específica, apontando que esses significados são transmitidos através das gerações e relacionam-se com tradições e convenções grupais. As atletas criam sentidos para essas vivências através do discurso construído socialmente na modalidade; as experiências acumuladas dentro do grupo levam as participantes a uma expectativa do sofrimento; os vínculos estabelecidos geram a capacidade de simbolizar a dor; suportar o limite imposto pelo corpo faz parte da cultura da modalidade. Os sentidos que constituem o significado da dor permitiu compreender a essência dos conteúdos do que é e como se dá a experiência dolorosa de uma modalidade esportiva quando praticada em alto rendimentoHigh performance sports is associated with extreme physical and psychological wear in training and competition. Pain is a constant attribute in the lives of these athletes and it is a sensory and emotional experience often evaluated as negative, associated with a real physiological, social and psychic real or non-abreviant injury. Thus, studies with an intention of meaning and perception of the athletes themselves are taken into account the culture of the sport and the modality, because the culture is a complex of skills or habits acquired through a social factor. This study aimed to analyze how Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics athletes experienced pain and their own meanings in their sports career. To that end, 18 Brazilian athletes participating in the Summer Olympics in different editions were investigated, from the perspective of Cultural Studies, theoretical inspiration to think about cultural productions and social practices. A decision to investigate this group was structured because it is a modality with great technical difficulty, of previous professionalization and a high level of performance, reached in adolescence. The excessive and premature requirement of the body, the involvement with routines and the high level of difficulty of the exercises practiced predispose as athletes to a greater risk of pain and suffering. The method used for the biographical narrative that allowed to apprehend through the medium of the memories of this group of athletes in the understanding of the meaning of pain without sport and in the specific modality, pointing out that these meanings are transmitted through sales and relate to group conventions and traditions. The athletes create meanings for these lives through the socially constructed discourse in the modality; the experiences as accumulated within the group they take as participants an expectation of suffering; the established bonds generate the capacity to symbolize pain; support more than the legal limit for the body is part of the sport culture. The senses that constitute the meaning of permible pain, namely the essence of the contents of what is like a painful experience of a sporting modality when practiced in high yield
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Lewis, Tiffany Emma. "Exercises in Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: The Cultural Programming of the Los Angeles and London Olympic Games." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430946430.
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García, García Beatriz. "Towards a Cultural Policy for Great Events. Local and Global Issues in the Definition of the Olympic Games Cultural Programme. Lessons from the Sydney Olympic Arts Festivals 1997-2000." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4111.
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Esta tesis estudia el estado y aplicaciones actuales de políticas culturales en la producción del programa cultural de un gran evento. La tesis parte de la base de que los planteamientos de una política cultural pueden ser un instrumento útil para guiar el diseño, la gestión y la promoción de un programa cultural. Adicionalmente, se considera que la relevancia cultural de un gran evento depende en gran medida de la consistencia en la elección de una política que informe su dimensión cultural tanto a un nivel local como global. En esta línea, la tesis tiene como objetivo explorar si los principios de una política cultural ofrecen una buena plataforma para gestionar y comunicar la dimensión cultural de un gran evento como los Juegos Olímpicos y en particular, su programa cultural oficial. La tesis utiliza los Festivales Olímpicos de las Artes de Sydney 2000 como caso de estudio.Las nociones y aplicaciones de una política cultural son analizadas en el contexto de la red global del gran evento- en el caso de los Juegos Olímpicos, el Comité Olímpico International (COI) - y en el contexto del anfitrión local - Sydney y Australia. La influencia de la red global del evento es estudiada a través de una revisión histórica de la definición de cultura y programa cultural en el Movimiento Olímpico, y mediante el análisis de las estructuras y agendas culturales del COI. A un nivel local, las convergencias y divergencias entre el programa cultural del evento y la política cultural de la ciudad y país anfitrión se explican a partir del estudio del contexto histórico, social y político de Sydney -Australia; las estructuras de gestión del evento, sus estrategias de promoción, y sus impactos a corto plazo.
Uno de los hallazgos clave de la tesis es que los planteamientos de una política cultural tienen una influencia menor en la producción del programa cultural de un gran evento. El COI no tiene una política cultural definida y es por tanto incapaz de ofrecer una guía cultural consistente para los organizadores de respectivos Juegos Olímpicos. Esto indica que la capacidad de producir de un programa cultural representativo y relevante depende enteramente de las habilidades y prioridades de la comunidad local y sus líderes. Sin embargo, el estudio del caso de Sydney e investigaciones sobre casos anteriores revela que el papel de planificadores y gestores culturales en la organización de grandes eventos es muy marginal. Por el contrario, la mayoría de eventos son dirigidos por los intereses económicos de inversores privados y públicos, y por derivadas estrategias de márketing.
La tesis concluye indicando que grandes eventos como los Juegos Olímpicos son a menudo incapaces de dejar un legado cultural relevante y de ofrecer una experiencia representativa que sea apropiada por la comunidad local. Esto se debe al énfasis desmesurado en la protección de intereses económicos mientras los aspectos sociales y culturales del evento son relegados a una posición secundaria. A pesar de los éxitos conseguidos en el desarrollo de estrategias de márketing y promocionales para grandes eventos, sólo la creación de una política cultural coherente puede asistir en la consecución de un legado que vaya más allá de impactos económicos a corto plazo, y sea capaz de llegar a la comunidad anfritiona y espectadores globales de manera significativa y distintiva.
This thesis studies the current state and application of cultural policy principles in the production of a great event's cultural programme. The thesis departs from the idea that cultural policy principles can be a useful tool to guide the design, management and promotion of an event's cultural programme. Furthermore, it is considered that the cultural relevance of a great event is highly dependent on the consistency of the policy choices informing its cultural dimensions both at a global and a local level. In this context, the thesis aims to explore whether notions of cultural policy provide a good platform for managing and communicating the cultural dimension of a great event such as the Olympic Games, in particular, the Games official cultural programme. The thesis uses the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festivals as a case study.
Notions and applications of cultural policy are analysed according to the event's global network - the IOC - and its local host - Sydney and Australia. The influence of the event's global network is studied through a historical review of notions of culture in the Olympic Movement and an analysis of the cultural structures and agendas within the IOC. At a local level, convergences and divergences between the event's cultural programme and the cultural policy of the local host are explained on the grounds of the Sydney and Australia's social and political context, the event structures of management, its promotional strategy and its short-term impacts.
A key finding of the research is the very limited influence that cultural policy principles have in the production of a great event's cultural programme. The IOC does not have a clearly defined cultural policy and is thus unable to offer a consistent guide for respective Games organisers. This means that success in implementing locally representative cultural programmes depends entirely on the event host community. However, research on the Sydney case and commentary on prior events reveals that cultural planners and policy-makers have a marginal role in the planning and organisation of great events. Instead, events are driven by economic interests and marketing strategies.
The thesis concludes that great events such as the Olympic Games frequently fail to leave long-term cultural legacies and are often unable to provide an experience that fully engages and represents the host community. This occurs because there has been an over-emphasis on economic interests while the social and cultural aspects of the event have been deemed secondary. Regardless of the success in developing event marketing and promotional strategies, only the creation of coherent cultural policies can assist securing an event legacy that goes beyond economic impacts and touches host communities and global viewers in meaningful and distinctive ways.
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Hua, Mei. "Causal attribution and cultural difference an analysis of Olympic success in U.S.. and China /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/m_hua_1050509.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in communication)--Washington State University, May 2009.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 27, 2009). "Edward R. Murrow College of Communication." Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-46).
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The culture of the olympic games from Australian athletes' perspectives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/1/Margaret_Schuler_Thesis.pdf.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The Culture of the Olympic Games from Australian Athletes' Perspectives." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Thomas, Jonathan M. "Behold the image-makers : the structure of the Olympic movement and its image, in the context of the Olympic Games bidding process." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4248.
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Panayis, Mitchell. "The endz game : the effects of the London 2012 Olympic Games on the communities of the host boroughs." Thesis, Kingston University, 2015. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/35847/.
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Not since the 1966 World Cup has Britain experienced such an explicit collision of the most mega of sporting-events with the most ordinary of people, with these two phenomena coming into direct contact through the London 2012 Olympic Games. The award of the Games to London led me to begin a six year case study that focused on the relationship between the dominant forces and the people when power, space, finances, reputations and democracy itself are at stake during a Host Cities Olympiad. Whilst Government bodies have published quantitative reports on the economic effects of the Games on the Host Boroughs, and fellow researchers have tackled social issues arising from the Games, from social housing to local employment, this study attempts to report the overall 'experience' of specific members of the local communities affected by the Olympic Games. This collation of experience resulted in a series of short, experimental and feature films, which are discussed within this written thesis, which critically analyses the production of the films in the context of the most relevant existing theoretical frameworks. The project is a critique of ordinary people's experience of this mega-event, and the lessons drawn from this collection of experiences could go some way towards aiding both the International Olympic Committee and event planners in the UK in ensuring future mega-events result in real democratic progress.
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Sodré, Marina de Lima. "Cultura organizacional e valores olímpicos: estudo de caso de uma ONG." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39136/tde-01062017-094959/.
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A escassez de estudos sobre ONGs, esporte e Cultura Organizacional no país despertou o interesse deste trabalho, que teve como objetivo, identificar e descrever a Cultura Organizacional (CO) de uma ONG que realiza um programa socioeducacional e esportivo e, ainda, verificar se a adoção de uma linha pedagógica baseada na Educação Olímpica se manifesta em aspectos da CO da organização. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como exploratória e estudo de caso, com abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados de fontes documentais e por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com as lideranças da entidade e aplicada análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontaram que é possível que a Cultura Organizacional de uma entidade esportiva seja influenciada pelos valores culturais e aspectos pedagógicos do esporte. O trabalho limitou-se a pesquisar somente uma ONG e deixa como sugestão para estudos futuros e estudos comparativosThe lack of studies on NGOs, sport and Organizational Culture in the country aroused the interest of this work, whose objective was to identify and describe the Organizational Culture (OC) of an NGO that carries out a socio-educational and sports program. The adoption of a pedagogical line based on Olympic Education manifests itself in aspects of the organization\'s OC. The research is characterized as exploratory and case study, with qualitative approach. The data were collected from documentary sources and through semi-structured interviews with the leadership of the entity and applied content analysis. The results pointed out that it is possible that the Organizational Culture of a sports entity is influenced by the cultural values and pedagogical aspects of the sport. The work has been limited to researching only one NGO and leaves as a suggestion for future studies and comparative studies
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Croose, Jonathan Freeman. "The practices of carnival : community culture and place." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15833.
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This thesis analyses ethnographic data gathered during participant observation within two vernacular town carnivals in East Devon and Dorset during 2012 and within the professional Cartwheelin’ and Battle for the Winds street performances which were staged as part of the Maritime Mix programme of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad at Weymouth. The thesis presents qualitative perspectives with regard to the cultural performance of carnival in the fieldwork area, in order to analyse the ‘performativity’ of carnival in these contexts: how it enacts and embodies a range of instrumentalities with regard to notions of community, culture and place. The thesis serves to unpack the ‘performance efficacy’ of carnival within the wider political and cultural landscape of the UK in the early 21st century, revealing the increasing influence of institutional policy on its aesthetics and cultural performance. By way of contrast, the thesis also asserts the value of vernacular carnivalesque street performance as a contestation of hegemonic notions of ‘art’, ‘place’ and ‘culture’. The ethnographies of both vernacular and professional carnival practice presented in the thesis show how the instrumentalities of carnival are employed as cultural performances and as symbolic constructions of place, power and policy. These ethnographies reveal the contradictory ‘efficacy’ of carnival: how it functions both as a symbolic expression of a progressive, rhizomatic sense of place and also as a normative performance of vertical symbolic power and place-identity. The thesis offers a cultural geography of carnival as praxis in the south west UK, locating it within specific geographical, historical and socio-cultural contexts which have developed since the late 19th century. The thesis also offers a productive contribution to the emerging dialogue between cultural geography and performance studies through its analysis of the performativities of participants’ affective, carnivalesque experience: an analysis which articulates how people ritualise and perform the multiple boundaries between individual and community identities through carnival. Further, the thesis considers the means by which people present and enact particular symbolic representations of place and identity through their carnival performances, both in professional and non-professional contexts. In its conclusion and recommendations, the thesis seeks to frame these ethnographies within a critique of carnival practice which is considered through the contested geographies of the ‘creative economy’. It seeks to demonstrate how culture-led processes of policy enactment are increasingly critical influences within carnival and arts development in rural and small-town contexts and within place-based strategies of public engagement. Further, the thesis seeks to consider the effects that this hegemony has on ‘vernacular’ practices of carnival. The thesis adds a further voice to those cultural geographers who warn about the diminishing public space which is now available to people for spontaneous, ‘non-productive’ carnival festivity in the context of globalised late capitalism and ‘applied’ culture. Finally, the thesis offers a proposed remedy: a re-imagination of progressive structures of public engagement through culture; structures which support ‘vernacular’ practice alongside the instrumentalities of arts-development and public policies of place, in tune with a growing alternative discourse which seeks to ‘rethink the cultural economy.
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Schabel, David Lighton. "Chinese-American Business Customs: a Comparison of Cultural Similarities and Differences." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209155405.
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Hartmann, Douglas Robert. "Golden ghettos : the cultural politics of race, sport, and civil rights in the United States, 1968 and beyond /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808983.
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Dyreson, Mark Sanford, and Mark Sanford Dyreson. "America's athletic missionaries: The Olympic Games and the creation of a national culture, 1896-1936." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184706.
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During the late nineteenth century American reformers crafted a physical culture designed to help adjust their nation to the social changes fostered by industrialization, urbanization and immigration. The creators of modern sport considered athletics a "technology" for building a modern liberal civilization. Their "sporting republic" quickly gained a prominent place in American life. America's Athletic Missionaries examines the impact that United States participation in the Olympic Games, from 1896 to 1936, had on American culture. The idea of the sporting republic united politics and the strenuous life. In the Olympics Americans discovered a particularly rich environment for both athletic and political demonstrations. The architects of the sporting republic thought that sport could create livable urban environments, fight crime, promote democracy, Americanize the recently acquired empire, and assimilate immigrant populations. American Olympic teams earned the moniker of "America's athletic missionaries" for their performances at the first five Olympic Games. American Olympians enjoyed the active support of the political, business and academic elite. Lionized by the press and showered with public acclaim, the Olympians became symbols of the power of sport in channeling human energy in socially productive directions. During the 1920s the role of the sporting republic underwent a transformation. Sport, as had many other facets of Progressive reform, had been accepted as part of the orthodoxy of American values. But the political nature of sport changed. Abandoned by intellectuals who associated it with middle-class materialism, sport was increasingly cast as a form of escapism and disassociated from political action. The new version of sport became one of the totems of consumer culture. The press depicted the Olympic Games of the 1920s as sensational spectacles, without any significant political overtones. By the 1930s Americans had rediscovered the political uses of sport. Much of the world had come to view the Olympic Games as tests of national strength and many countries devoted great resources in the pursuit of athletic conquest. This study examines the relationship between political and physical culture, the uses of athletic ideology in the construction of American civilization, and the function of sport as a cultural tool.
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Nash, Casey Aaron. "The Olympic Glory of Jesse Owens: A Contribution to Civil Rights and Society." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1510.
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Jesse Owens was the star of the Berlin Olympics in 1936. His four gold medals in Hitler's Germany, as an African American, had far reaching implications back in the United States. Despite segregation and a social hierarchy that was an impasse to both black opportunity and achievement, Owens created a lasting legacy that drastically impacted race relations. The purpose of this thesis was to examine what the Olympic glory of Owens represented for society. Owens as an Olympian in 1936 manufactured a brand of social capital that tied people together in commonality—as Americans. As well, in both myth and deed, Owens has been traditionally credited with challenging Hitler's beliefs of Aryan Supremacy. Yet, Owens was also a race pioneer, as his athletic feats were read in newspapers all over the country, and as a result, helped shift the consciousness of Southerners who were historically ignorant of black achievement.
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Kim, Nakyoung. "Identity politics and globalization : an analysis of the South Korean media coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10982.
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This thesis examines the extent to and the way in which the contemporary political and socio-cultural context of South Korea, a divided, postcolonial and Northeast Asian nation is embedded in the national media coverage of global sport events, especially the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Attention is given to the implications of current state of international relations, politics and foreign policies between the R.O.K. and its geopolitical neighbours such as the U.S. and the D.P.R.K., Japan and China from the Northeast. The similarities and differences in the symbolic descriptions of Olympic athletes and delegates, and their achievements along with their identity markers such as national identity, regional identity, race and ethnicity are analysed. The global-national patterns and transformations in the power relations between hegemonic and ideological elements, such as nationalisms, racial/ethnic stereotypes, pan-Asian sentiments and Asianism, are examined. According to the characteristics of conservative or progressive, mainstream or sport-specific and print or television media coverage, the ways in which reporting style and tendency are distinctive from each other are clarified. Data was collected from newspapers and television coverage in the period of Beijing Olympic Games and a week before and after the Games. Media content analysis, including thematic analysis, discourse analysis and visual/image analysis, is used to analyse the data in both quantitative and qualitative terms. The theoretical frameworks of identity politics, contemporary cultural studies and figurational sociological concepts of personal pronouns and the established and outsiders are applied. The research findings discuss the twin process of increasing varieties and diminishing contrasts and homogenising and heterogenising tendencies in the globalisation process, which was evident in the South Korean media coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and its opening ceremony.
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Jung, Kyung S. "Corporate governance of NOCs : the case of Korean Olympic Committee." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13462.
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This study identifies the characteristics of seven key principles of good/corporate governance at three levels: as notions that originated in business; in their applications to sport through systematic review; and in relation to the interpretations given to them in the Olympic Movement. The aims of this study are, thus, to establish and utilise the IOC s definitions/interpretations and operationalisations of corporate and/or good governance developed in a western framework and apply to a non-western NOC, the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC). This study adopts critical realist assumptions which give rise to the hypothesis that both the regularities of the Korean society and its unobservable social structures have an impact on the corporate governance of the KOC. It also uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine each interviewee s discourse in order to identify the knowledge embraced by it and to interpret social practice(s) and the exercise of power. CDA is employed in relation to four selected events follows: the KOC/KSC merger, budgetary planning, the recruitment of staff in terms of gender and disability equity and the processes used for selecting the KOC President and the Chef de Mission. The unobservable deep structure is shown to be real domain in Korean society by the social practices exhibited in the four events. The government and, in particular, the State President represent the highest and most influential authority in decision-making on Korean sports policy. That power relationship coupled with the pre-existing structure of the KOC/KSC s financial dependency on the government has resulted in a situation where the government has been able to interfere greatly in the KOC/KSC s overall decision-making on sports policy including the election of the President of the KOC. The KOC/KSC President is the most influential stakeholder in the decision-making within the organisation including the selection of Chef de Mission. As the pre-existing structure of cultural expectations determines that women should usually quit their jobs after marriage and that people with disabilities are incapable of working, the strongly male with abilities-dominated organisational culture has resulted in a social phenomenon whereby few females or people with impairments have succeeded in being promoted to senior positions. From the macro-level perspective, the first KOC/KSC merger accomplished on the orders of the State President shows the dominance of economic power as suggested in Marxist influenced forms of analysis. The incumbent KOC President, who is at the pinnacle of the business elite, contributed to the KOC/KSC merger, which illustrates the aspect of elitism. In connection with the budgetary process, this may be viewed as evidence of the existence of a neo-corporatist structure in which the state plays a central role and acts in a unitary way with the involvement of a limited number of actors. With respect to the meso-level perspective, the aspect of clientelism is exhibited since the government habitually appoints its political aides to be the heads of various sporting organisations. Concerning political governance, it becomes obvious that the government has direct control over KOC/KSC s policy. In terms of systemic governance, the relations among the domestic stakeholders of the KOC are more likely to follow a hierarchical type of governance, as the government has adopted the highest position and the National Federations are under the control of the KOC/KSC. With reference to Lukes (1974) second dimension of power this can be evidenced in the context of the non-decision making roles of women and the disabled. The IOC s interpretations of the key principles of corporate governance in a western framework are applied to the KOC. Accountability, responsibility, transparency and democracy are established but the KOC s governance practices are not equivalent, while effectiveness and efficiency are interpreted as the same ways of the IOC s. In general, power centralisation is apparent throughout the Korean cultural context. The KOC s power structure and organisational culture is likely to be concentrated to the KOC President within the organisation and broadly, the Korean government enjoys its power centralisation decision-making in the Korean context which gives rise to a peculiarly Korean way of interpreting and applying the principles of corporate governance. In such circumstances, nevertheless, where the KOC is making an effort to align its practices with the IOC s recommendations as much as possible, the indication is that the KOC is on course to reflect the IOC s governance practices.
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Aragon, Ruiz Antonio. "Learning from the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympic Games about Aboriginal peoples of Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3090.
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This research examines the ways in which the Vancouver Olympics emblem, an Inuit inuksuk, and other Aboriginal symbols have been ‘adopted’ by the organizers of the 2010
Winter Olympics, how visual and textual Aboriginal representations have been incorporated into the public education mandate of the Games, and how this relates to the Aboriginal Participation Goals of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). I use Freirian critical cultural pedagogy and Foucauldian theories along with a visual research method, semiotic analysis, as a way to examine the material presented on the official Vancouver 2010 Olympic website and related websites.
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Vest, Donald. "The role of culture in the adapted approach to international advertising: implications for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1995. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1608.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the attitudes of business and advertising executives, civic leaders, and individuals towards the perceived role of standardized or adapted international advertising appeals in promoting the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games.
The study was descriptive in design and used both secondary and primary data. The findings suggest that the 1996 Olympic Games should be advertised in other countries using culturally meaningful themes adapted to reflect the aesthetics, language, customs and educational level of the target audience. Conversely, Olympic advertising themes should not contain religious messages or be standardized.
These findings carry implications for the International Olympic Committee, the World Cup Soccer Federation, Tourists Boards, Convention Bureaus, Chambers of Commerce, as well as scholars and practitioners who wish to advocate employing adapted or standardized advertising messages to culturally diverse target audience.
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Tian, Xiao. "Content analysis of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games' effects in the New York Times." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/838.
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Relying on framing theory, this study used The New York Times to explore how Chinese news was depicted before, during and after the Beijing Summer Olympics. The research regarding how the Chinese government tried to leverage the Olympics to enhance its image is often deliberated. However, there have only been a 3 few studies on the evaluation of the effects the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games had on the image of China, as depicted by The New York Times. This study generated an understanding of the impact the presentations of The New York Times had on the soft power used by China through the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The study examined how the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics were associated with the depiction of Chinese news in The New York Times during the pre-, mid-, and post-Olympics years. Specifically, world and business sections within The New York Times were mainly influenced by the effects of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. In addition, there were no direct associations found between the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and how China was depicted photographically in The New York Times. In terms of the above factors; this study showed that China's national image did not improve in the New York Times after the 2008 Bejing Summer Olympic Games.
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Lara, Jaramillo Jose Miguel. "La publicidad como estrategia y herramienta para incentivar el mercado cultural. Caso: Milco, brand mascot de Lima 2019, en el Museo Amano." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655077.
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El presente trabajo analiza las percepciones de especialistas en ciencias sociales sobre la brand mascot Milco en la exposición Cuchimilco, creada por el Museo Amano. Este personaje, al ser punto de conexión entre la publicidad y la difusión de patrimonio cultural, nos motivó a realizar un estudio de caso que reúne, analiza y contrasta las opiniones de expertos de reconocida trayectoria en el estudio de la sociedad y cultura peruana para reconocer el potencial de Milco como un reciente caso de publicidad excepcional frente a un contexto desfavorecedor para el desarrollo del sector cultural peruano, concluyendo que la publicidad es una herramienta cuyos aportes a la cultura dependen de la responsabilidad alrededor de la formación y sentido crítico frente al contexto de los agentes que la elaboran.This paper analyzes social sciences experts' perceptions about the brand mascot Milco as part of the exposition Cuchimilco, made by Amano Museum. This character, as a bridge between advertising and the spread of Peruvian cultural heritage, motivated us to explore through a case study that gathers, analyzes, and contrasts the opinions of renowned local experts in the study of Peruvian society and culture to recognize Milco's potential as a recent exceptional advertising case against an unfavorable context for the development of the Peruvian culture sector, concluding that advertising is a tool whose contributions to culture depend on the responsibility upon the education and critical sense of the agents that use it.
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Burkel, Laurel M. "Cups, cowbells, medals, and flags sport and national identity in Germany, 1936-2006." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Meekison, Lisa. "Playing the games : indigenous performance in Australia's Festival of the Dreaming." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670221.
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Vidal, Anne. "Representing Australian identity in the years 2000-2001 : the Sydney Olympic Games and the Centenary of Federation (selling Australia to the world or commemorating a flawless past?)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27914.
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In his book, Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980,
Richard White argues that:
There is no 'real' Australia waiting to be uncovered. A national
identity is an invention [. ..]. When we look at ideas about national
identity, we need to ask, not whether they are true or false, but
what their function is, whose creation they are, and what interests
they serve.
White's argument is a useful starting point when considering the
“obsession” Australian intellectuals have always felt to uncover their
national identity, which goes back to the very birth of Australia as a settler-colony.
Australia’s beginning as a colony not only implied a complete
dependence in terms of economy, defence and culture towards Great
Britain but also the dispossession of the indigenous population under the
legal doctrine of Terra Nullius. All settler-colonies in search for a national
identity follow the same initiatory path. The settlers at first feel isolated and
in exile, far away from any familiar landmark and find it difficult to
measure up with the mother country. After having, not without difficulty,
defined itself through the invention and the appropriation of myths
originating from the dominant Anglo Celtic society, Australia now seems to
suffer from a national identity crisis. The last three decades saw the
challenging and eroding of the mainstream white Australia identity by
minority groups such as women, non Anglo-Celtic migrants and indigenous
Australians. While those groups have made their voices heard throughout
the last thirty years, we can easily identify a dominant decade for each
group. Women saw most of their claims settled in the 1970s,
multiculturalism became a reality in the 1980s while indigenous
Australians stamped on the 1990s with native title laws, the reconciliation
movement and the growing acceptance and adoption of Aboriginality as a
desirable component of the Australian national identity.
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Drafts-Johnson, Lilah. "The Language of Sport: Understanding Chile and chilenidad through Marathon Races and Fútbol Games." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1524920821602293.
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McDermott, Marie-Louise. "Wet, wild and convivial : past, present and future contributions of Australia’s ocean pools to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/517.
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I investigated the past, present and possible futures of Australia’s ocean pools, over a hundred public seawater pools sited on rocky surfcoasts, so that waves wash over their walls. My interdisciplinary analysis informed by actor-‐network theory explored their contributions to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts. Ocean pools have since the nineteenth century been far more significant in the surf, beach, pool and body cultures of Australia and South Africa, than in those of Britain and the United States. Most of Australia’s ocean pools lie within state of New South Wales, and my work strengthens the case for recognising Australian and NSW ocean pools as having distinct collective identities and affinities with their South African counterparts. Ocean pools are sites of social and environmental learning that challenge efforts to establish human mastery over wild natures and depictions of coastal environments as mere stages for enacting human activities unconstrained by non-‐human nature. They also challenge the notion that people prefer to swim and bathe at patrolled beaches or in private or public pools far less wild than an ocean pool. They are evidence that supervision by suitably trained and equipped lifeguards or lifesavers is not the only or the most satisfactory way to adequately safeguard bathers and swimmers from the dangers of the sea. Australia’s ocean pools demonstrate that regardless of race, class, gender, age or ability, people can and do make themselves at home in pools shared convivially with wild nature and well-‐suited for sustained, unsupervised recreation and sport on rocky surfcoast. Ocean pools serve as places of refuge, therapeutic and restorative environments, adventure playgrounds, convivial public spaces, visually appealing cultural landscapes, brands, icons and symbols. Australia’s ocean pools are unified by their sites, their affordances and core actor-‐ networks linked to their fundamental and enduring identity as ‘wild but safe enough surfside pools’. Rocky shores and coastal waters characterised by surf, sharks and rips are among the most persistent macro-‐actors in these networks that include bathers, swimmers, tourism and transport networks, news media, local councils and progress associations. Australian ocean pools that gained a further identity as ‘public pools for competition and carnivals’ acquired additional actor-‐networks strongly linked since the late nineteenth century to amateur swimming clubs and schools, and since the twentieth century to surf lifesaving clubs and winter swimming clubs. Those ocean pools nevertheless, remained predominately recreational facilities. As other types of public pools became more affordable, Australia’s ocean pools remained popular despite gaining new identities as an ‘unusually hazardous type of public pool’ and ‘a type of facility no longer created’. The growing threats to ocean pools and their actor-‐networks are a further unifying factor. As sport and recreation venues cultivating healthy, convivial relationships with wild nature and possessing unrealised potential as centres for community engagement, learning and research, ocean pools are worth emulating on other rocky shores and in other public places. My work strengthens efforts to sustain and create ocean pools and supports further studies on seawater pools and their actor-‐networks.
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Dyer, Rebekah Mary. "Multivalence, liminality, and the theological imagination : contextualising the image of fire for contemporary Christian practice." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16452.
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This thesis contends that the image of fire is a multivalent and theologically valuable image for application in British Christian communities. My research offers an original contribution by contextualising the image of fire for Christian practice in Britain, and combining critical observation of several contemporary fire rites with theological analysis. In addition, I conduct original case studies of three Scottish fire rituals: the Stonehaven Fireball Ceremony, the Beltane Fire Festival, and Up-Helly-Aa in Lerwick, Shetland. The potential contribution of fire imagery to Christian practice has been overlooked by modern theological scholarship, social anthropologists, and Christian practitioners. Since the multivalence of the image has not been fully recognised, fire imagery has often been reduced to a binary of ‘positive' and ‘negative' associations. Through my study of non-faith fire rituals and existing Christian fire practices, I explore the interplay between multivalence, multiplicity, and liminality in fire imagery. I demonstrate that deeper theological engagement with the image of fire can enhance participation, transformation, and reflection in transitional ritual experience. I argue that engaging with the multivalence of the image of fire could allow faith communities to move beyond dominant interpretive frameworks and apply the image within their own specific context. First, I orientate the discussion by examining the multivalence of biblical fire imagery and establishing the character of fire within the British social imagination. Second, I use critical observation of community fire practices in non-faith contexts to build a new contextual framework for the analysis of fire imagery. Finally, I apply my findings to a contextual analysis of existing Christian fire practices in Britain. Throughout, I argue that sensory and imaginative interaction with the image of fire provides a way to communicate and interact with theological ideas; experience personal and communal change; and mediate experience of the sacred.
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"Landscape urbanism: cultural campus in post Olympic Beijing." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896891.
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Yu Kai Cheong, Andrew."Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report."
Includes bibliogrpahical references.
Research
Chapter 1.0 --- Thesis Statement
Chapter 1.1 --- Thesis Questions
Chapter 1.2 --- Abstract (Issue
Chapter 1.3 --- Proposition
Chapter 2.0 --- Meaning and Formation of Landscape
Chapter 2.1 --- Landscape Scale Comparison
Chapter 2.2 --- Theory . Classical
Chapter 2.3 --- Critiques on Theory of Landscape
Chapter 3.0 --- Notion of Sustainable City
Chapter 3.1 --- Green Thinking ´Ø Nature Imitation vs Green Ideology
Chapter 3.2 --- Theory on Sustainability
Chapter 3.3 --- Sustainability Issues in Beijing Context
Chapter 3.4 --- "Reference Cases . Beijing, China
Chapter 4.0 --- Beijing Evolution Conditions
Chapter 4.1 --- Social Issues: Urban Planning and Society
Chapter 4.2 --- Landscape Issues: Natural Resources and Green System Planning
Chapter 4.3 --- Architecture Issues: Built-Form and Life Pattern
Chapter 4.4 --- Human Issues: Human and Nature
Chapter 5.0 --- Beijing Landscapes Study
Chapter 5.1 --- City. Network
Chapter 5.2 --- District. Park
Chapter 5.3 --- Unit .Traditional Courtyard House
Chapter 6.0 --- Beijing Analysis
Chapter 6.1 --- Contextual Study. Beijing Green Code
Chapter 6.2 --- Study on Asian Games Site
Chapter 7.0 --- Artificial Landscape Discipline .Vocabulary and Methodology
Chapter 7.1 --- Vocabulary & Design Technique - Modeling Explorations
Chapter 8.0 --- Density and Program Implications
Chapter 8.1 --- Plot Ratio Comparison
Chapter 8.2 --- Proposed Scenario
Chapter 9.0 --- Site Experimentation
Chapter 9.1 --- Site Existing Conditon Study
Chapter 9.2 --- Strategic Responses
Design
Chapter 1.0 --- Proposition
Chapter 1.1 --- Proposition
Chapter 1.2 --- Olympic / Post-Olympic Condition
Chapter 1.3 --- Asian Games Site in Different Periods
Chapter 2.0 --- Density / Infrastructure / Cultural Campus
Chapter 2.1 --- Characteristics of Beijing City
Chapter 2.2 --- Density Issues . Comparison & Implication
Chapter 2.3 --- Infrastructure & City
Chapter 2.4 --- Idea of Campus . Idea of Culture
Chapter 3.0 --- Idea of Beijing City
Chapter 3.1 --- Strategic Positioning / Reasoning
Chapter 3.2 --- Multi-Scalar / Nested Set of Reading onYin-Yang
Chapter 3.3 --- Overlaying Ideas of Beijing City
Chapter 3.4 --- Site Conditon / Intentional Condition
Chapter 4.0 --- Site Development
Chapter 4.1 --- Photographic Inspiration
Chapter 4.2 --- Site Development Strategy / Growth Scenario
Chapter 4.3 --- Comparison & Simulation on Relative Density and Scale of Fabric
Chapter 4.4 --- Internal Organization of Asian Games Site
Chapter 4.5 --- Design Process Composite
Chapter 4.6 --- Artificial Landscape Modeling Explorations as Design Technique
Chapter 5.0 --- Design Implementation
Chapter 5.1 --- Master Plan of Cultural Campus on Asian Games Site
Chapter 5.2 --- Architectural Organization
Chapter 5.3 --- Design Development
Chapter 5.4 --- Idea of a Place
Chapter 6.0 --- Bibliography
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Brownell, Susan Elaine. "The Olympic movement on its way into Chinese culture." 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/31828081.html.
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Shin, Joong-Seog. "Some relationships between socio-cultural factors and sports achievements in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23871174.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1990.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-57).
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Ortega, Mário Rui Teixeira de Azevedo. "Estratégias de um projecto. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park's Culture & Education Quarter." Master's thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/108806.
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A presente dissertação explicita e aprofunda o trajecto e respectivo processo projectual daequipa formada por David Chipperfield Architects, Arup, Harry Gugger Studio, Robbrechten Daem architecten, Vogt Landscape, PUBLICA e alinea, como resposta ao concursointernacional para o Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park's Culture & Education Quarter, emLondres, realizado durante um período de aproximadamente quatro meses.Interpretando este concurso enquanto instrumento estruturador e clarificador deuma postura arquitectónica contemporânea, o trabalho propõe levantar a ponta do véuda complexa teia de relações entre o método de trabalho, dinâmicas de equipa e os seusresultados práticos.This work aims to analyse and critically reflect upon the architectural design processregarding the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Culture and Education Quarter DesignCompetition, in London, comprised by the team - David Chipperfield Architects, Arup,Harry Gugger Studio, Robbrecht en Daem architecten, Vogt Landscape, PUBLICA and alinea,developed during a period of approximately four months.In pursuing this research question, the main objective of the present dissertation is todeconstruct the complex web of relationships between the design method, the dynamics ofcollective leadership and the actual architectural results.
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Ortega, Mário Rui Teixeira de Azevedo. "Estratégias de um projecto. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park's Culture & Education Quarter." Dissertação, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/108806.
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A presente dissertação explicita e aprofunda o trajecto e respectivo processo projectual daequipa formada por David Chipperfield Architects, Arup, Harry Gugger Studio, Robbrechten Daem architecten, Vogt Landscape, PUBLICA e alinea, como resposta ao concursointernacional para o Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park's Culture & Education Quarter, emLondres, realizado durante um período de aproximadamente quatro meses.Interpretando este concurso enquanto instrumento estruturador e clarificador deuma postura arquitectónica contemporânea, o trabalho propõe levantar a ponta do véuda complexa teia de relações entre o método de trabalho, dinâmicas de equipa e os seusresultados práticos.This work aims to analyse and critically reflect upon the architectural design processregarding the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Culture and Education Quarter DesignCompetition, in London, comprised by the team - David Chipperfield Architects, Arup,Harry Gugger Studio, Robbrecht en Daem architecten, Vogt Landscape, PUBLICA and alinea,developed during a period of approximately four months.In pursuing this research question, the main objective of the present dissertation is todeconstruct the complex web of relationships between the design method, the dynamics ofcollective leadership and the actual architectural results.
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Hrynkow, Christopher. "Players or pawns?: student-athletes, human rights activism, nonviolent protest and cultures of peace at the 1968 summer olympics." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22069.
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The image of two US athletes with black glove-covered fists raised on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is iconic. However, despite a number of academic studies, articles, books, lectures and films addressing this moment, the deeper story behind that student-athlete protest at Mexico 68 is little known. It was far from being a merely spontaneous or violent action. In fact, the protest was part of a concerted and largely peaceful effort to highlight several systemic injustices of the late 1960s by a group named the Olympic Project for Human Rights. As will be demonstrated in this thesis, it follows that the deeper story of the student-athlete protests at Mexico 68 are ripe with significance from both: (1) a Peace Studies perspective, focussing on structural injustice, and (2) a Conflict Resolution Studies viewpoint, which upholds value in the constructive settling of disputes. Employing a Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) lens, which keeps both sets of concerns in view, and undertaking descriptive and analytical approaches that bring the voice of the athletes to the fore as much as possible given the limitations of this study, allows for a discussion of remarkable student-athletes interacting not only within the competitive structure of their sport at the Olympics, but also amongst social, institutional, and political contexts. This approach becomes foundational for the conclusion that the athletes involved in protests at Mexico 68 were players (i.e., agents) and not pawns, in relation to complex socio-political forces, which sought to manipulate and oppress them. Moreover, this PACS approach allows for twelve concrete lessons flowing from the stories of the athletes to be delineated for their contemporary relevance in a world where far too many injustices remain. In short, the main protest is herein presented as an awe-inspiring moment, simultaneously as a compass and a key, which when integrated with a PACS perspective serves to guide us towards a fuller understanding of the Olympic Project for Human Rights and it goals, unlocking what is revealed in this study to be a potentially important moment in the history of cultures of peace.
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Ferstl, Christoph, and 克里多福. "The Olympic Movement – A Review on the Dissemination of Sport in the Taiwanese Culture." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15730091997435297139.
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The purpose of the study was to illuminate critically the little explored issue of the Olympic Movement in Taiwan. An objective of the research was furthermore to derive from the findings (literature review) some constructive political approaches in order to provide ideas to boost Taiwan’s sport dissemination. This has been accomplished by using primary two theories: Krawczyk’s anthropological-cultural theory and the sport development continuum. Along these theoretical approaches factors which might inhibit or promote the Taiwan’s sport dissemination were framed. The analysis of the cultural elements opened out into discovering one promoting factor (Confucian argument: sport for everybody) and three inhibiting factors (non-competitiveness, gender inequality and the virtue of diligence). In terms of examining Taiwan’s Olympic Movement and sport from a sport developmental perspective the study could identify two promoting variables (overlapping educational ideals of Olympism and Confucianism and Taiwan’s changing sport environment) and three sport inhibiting arguments (political tensions and transformations, affiliation of sport policy leaders and the decreasing power of Taiwan’s National Olympic Committee). On basis of the outcome the study suggests that Taiwan’s policy makers ought to consider the implementation of two links. Firstly, linking sport with culture and education and secondly linking sport with organization and management. Key Words: Olympic Movement, Taiwan, sport, Confucianism
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Yi-Ting, Lin, and 林怡廷. "Aesthetic elements in the culture ＆ creative industries－the emblems in 2008 Beijin Olympic Game." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48276108123255526783.
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Sun, Kang. "The influence of culture on graphic design : an investigation / research of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games graphic designs. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Communication, Unitec New Zealand /." Diss., 2007. http://www.coda.ac.nz/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=unitec_comm_di.
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Čmucha, Jiří. "Firemní identita Českého olympijského výboru." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-341044.
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Title: Corporate Identity of the Czech Olympic Committee Objectives: The thesis contains an analysis of recent image of corporate identity (CI) of the Czech Olympic Committee. The main objective of the thesis is an evaluation of the CI of the organization and a comparison with the arranged theoretical knowledge of contemporary literature. The outcome of the analysis is the suggestions and references to improve the area of CI. All of these suggestions will help to create new projects and more effective CI of the following organization. Methods: The thesis could be divided into two parts. The first part - theoretical - is dealing with the problems of theoretical knowledge which is available in the contemporary literature. The second part of the thesis contains the analysis, the comparison, the critical evaluation and suitable (realistic) recommendations for the creation of the optimal CI. The relevant data were obtained from the available documents and from the interviews with the members of the organisation. The rest of the data was obtained from author's personal expierence from the organisation where participated in an internship. Results: The analysis of CI shows the current status and quality of work of the Czech Olympic Committee, full of quality work with a purpose and the effort of the change...
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Přikrylová, Hana. "Kritéria pro porovnávání sportu a umění." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-339689.
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Title: Criteriafor the comparison ofsportand art Objectives:The aim of this thesis is to develop its own criteria that enable sport and arts closer comparison. The criteria for comparison should be based on the sources studied, indicating the definition of sport and art. The sub-objectives include a definition of the field of sport and art that best suits examined issue. The work also aims to demonstrate that the issues examined are a topic that interested personalities such as Pierre de Coubertin and are still current as in the case of New Circus. Methods:The basicmethodologyof theoretical work, see chaptermethodology. Results: A close examinationof the literaturefocused onthedivisionof sport onpurposeandaesthetic. Comparisonaestheticssportswith artandcreate your owncomparison criteriaforthe sportandartusedon a specificexample of a newcircus. Keywords: Sport, art, visual culture, kalokagathia, olympism, the cult of the body. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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John, Alistair. "Sports City: A critical analysis of Melbourne’s sportscape." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33075/.
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Adopting an urban entrepreneurial approach of selling the city of Melbourne as an attractive place in which to locate global footloose capital, the State Government of Victoria has, over the past three decades, strategically invested public funds into major sporting events. The aim of this thesis was to examine the production, representation, consumption, identification and regulation of Melbourne as a neoliberal ‘sport city’. A (con)textual analysis of newspaper articles was conducted in conjunction with interviews of influential cultural producers of the sport city – most notably state Premiers, Members of Parliament, CEO’s of Public Sports Trusts and journalists. Four case studies were employed to examine ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ and the re-regulating state. Characterising the ‘sport city’ as a cultural artefact, Melbourne’s sportscapes were inserted into the ‘circuit of culture’ to illustrate that the ‘sport city’ does not passively emerge but rather is actively produced, represented, consumed, identified and regulated as various interest groups engage in a struggle to (re)construct their social world. Adopting Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital, field and habitus along with Loïc Wacquant’s understanding of neoliberalism as the reengineering and redeployment of the state, I illustrate the use of elite sport as a form of cultural glue to re-regulate the city in favour of market-like mechanisms that benefit the urban and political elite. The Victorian state has successively re-regulated this neoliberal urban entrepreneurial strategy, often preventing dissident groups from resisting neoliberal activities, through its monopoly over the legitimate use of symbolic and material violence.
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(9786824), Mingjing Chen. "Newspaper journalism in Australia and China: A comparison of Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 coverage by two national dailies." Thesis, 2010. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Newspaper_journalism_in_Australia_and_China_A_comparison_of_Sydney_2000_and_Beijing_2008_coverage_by_two_national_dailies/13457480.
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This thesis argues, based upon a comparison of the 2000 Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that there is a very close relationship between nationalism, media and Olympics. For the purposes of cross-cultural analysis, the thesis undertakes a comparison of relevant media models ... will be argued that elements of propaganda infuse the Olympic coverage of both papers and events, albeit from within distinctly different social and ideological contexts. In the lead-up to the Sydney and Beijing events of 2000 and 2008, both the Australian and the People's Daily emphasised national unity over difference, even if the People's Daily appears to do so more systematically than the Australian"--Abstract.
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Stick, David A. "Identification of optimal broodstock for Pacific Northwest oysters." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/26654.
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The United States Pacific Northwest is well known for its shellfish farming. Historically, commercial harvests were dominated by the native Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, but over-exploitation, habitat degradation, and competition and predation by non-native species has drastically depleted their densities and extirpated many local populations. As a result, shellfish aquaculture production has shifted to the introduced Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. An underlying objective of this dissertation is the use of molecular genetics to improve our ability to accurately identifying optimal oyster broodstock for either restoration of Olympia oysters or farming of Pacific oysters. The ecological benefits provided by oysters as well as the Olympia oyster's historical significance, has motivated numerous restoration/supplementation efforts but these efforts are proceeding without a clear understanding of the genetic structure among extant populations, which could be substantial as a consequence of limited dispersal, local adaptation and/or anthropogenic impacts. To facilitate this understanding, we isolated and characterized 19 polymorphic microsatellites and used 8 of these to study the genetic structure of 2,712 individuals collected from 25 remnant Olympia oyster populations between the northern tip of Vancouver Island BC and Elkhorn Slough CA. Gene flow among geographically separated extant Olympia oyster populations is surprisingly limited for a marine invertebrate species whose free-swimming larvae are capable of planktonic dispersal as long as favorable water conditions exist. We found a significant correlation between geographic and genetic distances supporting the premise that coastal populations are isolated by distance. Genetic structure among remnant populations was not limited to broad geographic regions but was also present at sub-regional scales in both Puget Sound WA and San Francisco Bay CA. Until it can be determined whether genetically differentiated O. lurida populations are locally adapted, restoration projects and resource managers should be cautious of random mixing or transplantation of stocks where gene flow is restricted. As we transition from our Olympia oyster population analysis to our Pacific oyster quantitative analysis, we recognize that traditional quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping strategies use crosses among inbred lines to create segregating populations. Unfortunately, even low levels of inbreeding in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) can substantially depress economically important quantitative traits such as yield and survival, potentially complicating subsequent QTL analyses. To circumvent this problem, we constructed an integrated linkage map for Pacific oysters, consisting of 65 microsatellite (18 of which were previously unmapped) and 212 AFLP markers using a full-sib cross between phenotypically differentiated outbred families. We identified 10 linkage groups (LG1-LG10) spanning 710.48 cM, with an average genomic coverage of 91.39% and an average distance between markers of 2.62 cM. Average marker saturation was 27.7 per linkage group, ranging between 19 (LG9) and 36 markers (LG3).
Using this map we identified 12 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and 5 potential QTLs in the F1 outcross population of 236 full-sib Pacific oysters for four growth-related morphometric measures, including individual wet live weight, shell length, shell width and shell depth measured at four post-fertilization time points: plant-out (average age of 140 days), first year interim (average age of 358 days), second year interim (average age of 644 days) and harvest (average age of 950 days). Mapped QTLs and potential QTLs accounted for an average of 11.2% of the total phenotypic variation and ranged between 2.1 and 33.1%. Although QTL or potential QTL were mapped to all Pacific oyster linkage groups with the exception of LG2, LG8 and LG9, three groups (LG4, LG10 and LG5) were associated with three or more QTL or potential QTL. We conclude that alleles accounting for a significant proportion of the total phenotypic variation for morphometric measures that influence harvest yield remain segregating within the broodstock of West Coast Pacific oyster selective breeding programs.Graduation date: 2012
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Santoro, Leanne. "Modernising Furniture: Four Melbourne Designers 1946-60." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/157045.
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This thesis seeks to address the work of Australian
mid-century modern furniture designers, focusing on four
Melbourne-based designers, from 1946-60. Melbourne was a creative
centre during this fourteen-year period, with some of the
best-known modern Australian artists and designers working out of
the city. This thesis will examine the furniture designed by Fred
Ward (1900-1990), Fred Lowen (1919-2005), Grant Featherston
(1922-1995), and Clement Meadmore (1929-2005), during this time,
and will answer the question of how international design as well
as Australian post-war aesthetics and society were manifested
through their furniture. There has yet to be a definitive account
written of the work these designers produced in the post-war era,
and how Melbourne as a city responded to the emerging modernism
of these designers. This thesis seeks to address this gap. It
will also explore the craftsmanship of the designers, the
materials and production techniques used, and the styling and
marketing of the furniture. It will be shown that the majority of
the furniture produced by these designers sold in large
quantities and was used extensively throughout Melbourne and
other cities. It will also examine the legacy of mid-century
modern furniture and its resurgence in popularity in recent
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Журба, Марина Анатоліївна. "Публічне управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11300/8048.
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Журба М.А. Публічне управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту : дис.. … канд. юрид наук : 12.00.02 / Журба Марина Анатоліївна. – Одеса, 2017. – 216 с.Дисертація є науковим дослідженням управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту, його організаційного, правового та інструментального забезпечення. Проаналізовано рівень наукових розробок публічного управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту, визначено змістовні особливості та співвідношення її складових – фізичної культури та спорту. Розкрито правові засади управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту, систему формалізованих та неформалізованих юридичних джерел владно-упорядковуючого впливу на відповідний сектор суспільного життя, визначено проблеми законодавчого забезпечення галузевої управлінської діяльності, існуючу та перспективну системи принципів відповідної владної активності. Дослідження організаційних засад управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту здійснено на основі врахування тенденції та усіх видів децентралізації, у т.ч. визнання інститутів та окремих представників громадянського суспільства суб’єктами управління, їх суттєвої ролі не лише у формуванні цілей, але й у безпосередньому здійсненні владно-упорядковуючого впливу на фізичну культуру і спорт. Визначено компетенційні та організаційні проблеми органів виконавчої влади та органів місцевого самоврядування в управлінні досліджуваною галуззю. Охарактеризовано форми та методи управління у галузі фізичної культури і спорту, матеріально-правові та процедурні засади адміністративної відповідальності за проступки у галузі.
Диссертация является научным исследованием управления в области физической культуры и спорта, его организационного, правового и инструментального обеспечения. Проанализирован уровень научных разработок публичного/государственного управления в области физической культуры и спорта, определены содержательные особенности и соотношение ее составляющих – сферы физической культуры и сферы спорта. Определены недостатки по внедрению национальных видов спорта, которое состоялось без учета существующей классификации видов спорта и без закрепления четкой специфики/особенностей их правового режима. Установлены проблемы в концептуальном и программном обеспечении управления отраслью. Определены правовые основы управления в области физической культуры и спорта, система формализованных и неформализованных юридических источников властно-упорядочивающего влияния на соответствующий сектор общественной жизни, проблемы законодательного обеспечения отраслевой управленческой деятельности, существующей и перспективной системы принципов соответствующей властной активности. Отстаивается мнение о необходимости распространения права на занятие инструкторской и судейской практикой в спорте (не признавалось бы нарушением ограничений по совмещению и совместительству) на все категории лиц, уполномоченных на выполнение функций государства или местного самоуправления и приравненных к ним лиц. Исследование организационных основ управления в области физической культуры и спорта осуществлено на основе учета тенденции и всех видов децентрализации, в т.ч. признания институтов и отдельных представителей гражданского общества субъектами управления, их существенной роли не только в формировании целей, но и в непосредственном осуществлении властно-упорядочивающего влияния на физическую культуру и спорт. Выявлено и обосновано случаи терминологической несогласованности Закона «О физической культуре и спорте» и Закона «Об общественных объединениях», предложены способы их устранения. Определены компетенционные и организационные проблемы органов исполнительной власти и органов местного самоуправления в управлении исследуемой отраслью. Охарактеризованы формы и методы управления в области физической культуры и спорта, материально-правовые и процедурные основы административной ответственности за проступки (фактически, такая существует только за деликты в отрасли спорта). Определен четкий круг субъектов ответственности за нарушение запрета размещения ставок на спорт, связанных с манипулированием официальным спортивным соревнованием, выявлены недостатки в конструировании санкции за повторное совершение соответствующего проступка (основное и два дополнительных взыскания), раскрыта проблема неопределенности властного субъекта, компетентного составления протокола в случае совершения указанного деликта.
Thesis is a scientific research of administration in the field of physical culture and sport, its organizational, legal and instrumental providing. There is analysed the level of scientific developments of public management in the field of physical culture and sport, there are defined content features and correlations of its constituents – physical culture and sport. There are disclosed the legal principles of administration the field of physical culture and sport, system of the formalized and unformalized legal sources of imperiously-arranging influence on the corresponding sector of public life, there are defined the problems of the legislative providing of sectoral administrative activity, existing and perspective system of principles of corresponding imperious activity. The research of organizational bases of administration in field of physical culture and sport was carried out on the basis of of tendencies and all types of decentralization, in thereby confession of institutes and separate representatives of civil society by administration subjects, their substantial role not only in forming of aims, but also in direct realization of imperiously-arranging influence on the physical culture and sport. There are defined competence and organizational problems of executive power bodies and local self-government bodies in the administration of the mentioned field. There are characterized forms and methods of administration in the field of physical culture and sport, materially-legal and procedural bases of administrative responsibility for misconducts in that field.