This assignment involves providing quality and detailed answers to the questions below. The answers must be based on the text readings I have attached as Jpg files to this order.
The strongest answers will include:
• a demonstrated understanding of ways that key terms and themes have been used in different parts of the course
• a demonstrated understanding of the contexts that key terms were used within, and ways they can be applied
a demonstrated knowledge of major debates about important topics
• definitions of key terms that are pertinent to your answer
reference to relevant course materials – evidence showing you are aware of pertinent materials,
and understand the complexity of these materials
• a demonstrated awareness of specific examples that showcase your knowledge of pertinent
course materials
• clear evidence that you know which readings and what lecture materials are relevant to the
question!
TheQuestions:
QUESTION 1
The following questions pertain to ways that sport can be used for political purposes. When answering the following questions, please refer to pertinent course materials when appropriate. Be sure to demonstrate your awareness of course materials (e.g. concepts and their definitions; key arguments/debates; relevant examples from lectures, reading and videos).
(a) Define the term ‘politics’. (2)
(b) Describe what is meant by an ‘old’ politics of sport? Explain how the Canada-Soviet Union ‘Summit Series’ in 1972 is an example of an ‘old’ politics of sport. (3)
(c) What is public diplomacy, and what does it have to do with sport? (2)
(d) Outline reasons that some see globalization as positive and helpful for promoting peace. (4)
(e) What flaws have been identified with a neoliberal approach to:
(i) addressing environmental issues, and
(ii) providing recreational services for less wealthy groups? Be sure to explain how it is that a neoliberal approach is associated with the problem.
(4)
QUESTION 2
The following questions pertain to ways that sport can be used for social change. When answering the following questions, please refer to pertinent course materials when appropriate. Be sure to demonstrate your awareness of course materials (e.g. concepts and their definitions; key arguments/debates; relevant examples from lectures, reading and videos).
(a) Define ‘social movement’. (2)
(b) What is meant by ‘lifestyle politics’? What is an example of lifestyle politics? (2)
(c) What does it mean to say that (sport) subculture members may be “pre-political”? (3)
(d) When considering more ‘intentional’ attempts to create social change (or ‘intentional politics’), what are the features of movements that are thought to be most likely to be successful? (5)
(e) Elite Kenyan runners played an important role as ‘social movement entrepreneurs’ in Kenya, following post-election inter-ethnic violence in 2007-2008. What is a ‘social movement entrepreneur’? Why were elite Kenyan runners thought to be well-positioned to be social movement entrepreneurs’? (4)
(f) Outline the range of ways that ‘success’ can be defined for different social movements. (4)
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