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Transforming power relationships within grassroots and professional football to engender social change: re-visiting the exclusion of British Asians
No full textThis chapter revisits the exclusion of British Asians from professional football and reflects upon the authors' previous writing and activism in relation to it. Specifically Randhawa and Burdsey engage with ideas of transformation, in two distinct manifestations. They consider the extent to which British professional football has failed to transform into an occupational and consumer culture in which the positive long-term social change necessary for increasing British Asian participation can occur. In addition, they explore the transformational possibilities and difficulties of academic scholarship, with regard to practical measures to overcome exclusion, and to influence the terms of, and contributors to, the debate. The chapter comprises of three broad elements: an overview of the authors' backgrounds working on/with British Asians in football, focusing explicitly on academic-practitioner-activist partnership working and notions of knowledge translation; a (re)iteration of their position on the "Asians in Football" debate and explanation of the contemporary exclusion of British Asians from the professional game; and a consideration of some practical measures for challenging this scenario, via a transformation in the distribution of power as it pertains to current initiatives to overcome British Asian exclusion
Something has got to be done about this: Transforming Sport, Selves, and Scholarship
Full text linkIn this chapter we assert the need for a transformative approach to conducting research on sport. The transformative approach, which we call Critical Proactivism, insists upon the scholar taking an active political stance in conducting research with an explicit purpose for attempting to transform sport and the ways knowledge is produced about sport. We argue in this chapter, and introduce the various ways the contributors to this volume demonstrate, that it is not enough to call for change within sport, but efforts to transform the very power relations and institutional structures of sport
Preventing racism at Euro 2012 is not just the responsibility of Poland and the Ukraine. UEFA must take a harder line
No full textThe lead up to the Euro 2012 football competition has been fraught with concerns about racism in the host countries Poland and Ukraine. Daniel Burdsey argues that the organising body UEFA must do more to show that it will not tolerate racism, both on and off the field
They think it’s all over...it isn’t yet! The persistence of structural racism and racialised exclusion in twenty-first century football
No full textBook review: sport and politics in modern Britain: the road to 2012
No full textFor many, the 2012 Olympics was UK sport’s “Golden Summer”, heavily promoted and supported by UK politicians. But, this has not always been the case, with state engagement with UK sport ebbing and flowing over political administrations through the decades of the 20th century. Daniel Burdsey finds that Kevin Jefferys’ new text is an impressive overview of the politics and politicians that have shaped sports policy over the past 70 years in the UK. Covering both domestic and international sports policy as well as sport’s links with the welfare state, he writes that this book would be essential reading for those planning sports policy in Whitehall today
Obstacle race? 'race', racism and the recruitment of British Asian professional footballers
No full textBurdsey examines the ways in which British Asian footballers perceive 'race' and racism as factors influencing their under-representation in the professional game. He argues that issues of 'race' and racism in football often manifest themselves in forms that are far more complex, nuanced and subtle than are recognized within dominant discourses. Using their oral testimonies, Burdsey demonstrates that the attitudes and opinions of British Asian footballers often contradict the viewpoints proposed by anti-racist football organizations and the media. In particular, for a variety of reasons, the British Asian players in this research, many of whom have first-hand experience of playing at professional clubs, do not attribute the under-representation of British Asian professional footballers to racism in the professional game. These players believe that it is necessary to examine how issues of ethnicity, 'race' and racism manifest themselves at the amateur levels of the game, and how this situation inhibits the progression of British Asians into professional football. At amateur levels, racism from opponents, together with the role of football clubs as symbols of ethnic identity, means that British Asian players often play in all-Asian teams and in all-Asian leagues. This restricts their opportunities for being identified and recruited by professional clubs. Finally, Burdsey analyses the use of British Asian coaches as cultural intermediaries in facilitating the inclusion of British Asians in professional football. He argues that not only can this approach be disadvantageous, but also that it is hypocritical, and thus causes offence to many British Asian players
sj-docx-1-ene-10.1177_25148486221116737 - Supplemental material for What limits Muslim communities’ access to nature? Barriers and opportunities in the United Kingdom
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ene-10.1177_25148486221116737 for What limits Muslim communities’ access to nature? Barriers and opportunities in the United Kingdom by Rachael C Edwards, Brendon MH Larson and Daniel Burdsey in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space</p
Ethics, voice and organisational power plays
No full textBetween 1974 and early 2016 FIFA had two presidents, the Brazilian João Havelange and his successor the Swiss Joseph ‘Sepp' Blatter. Havelange won one election, against Englishman Stanley Rous to gain the presidency, and then was re-elected unopposed for a further five terms. Blatter was elected, defeating Lennart Johannson of UEFA, in 1998. He saw off challenges for the presidency from Issa Hayatou of Cameroon in 2002, and Prince Ali Bin Hussein of Jordan in 2015. In 2007 and 2011 he had been re-elected unopposed. How did these two men secure eleven terms of office, spanning forty-two years? (Blatter also won a fifth term in May 2015, his election victory clouded by the indictment by the US Department of Justice of fourteen FIFA-connected personnel, and his tenure foreshortened by his decision - before his humiliation later in the year, when he was suspended and then banned by his own ethics committee - to stand down by February 2016.) How did FIFA and the global football world continue to anoint, and accept the autocratic and dictatorial presidential styles of, Havelange and Blatter? This chapter offers a small and focused argument focused upon a critical flaw in the organisational composition of FIFA, also manifest in the ethical vulnerability of numerous other world governing bodies of sport. It presents snapshots of Blatter strategies, considering how both before and since the establishment of an ethics process, dissent has been routinely silenced and collusion bordered on corruption until conditions conducive to the rise of emboldened and sustained critical voices emerged. In this context the reforming or transformational capacity of ethical processes are evaluated. The chapter begins with some theoretical reflections on the conditions and contexts in which social change can emerge and might stimulate reformed structures and practices that could be claimed as transformative
In Whose Humanity?
No full textThe games have changed yet they remain the same. Sport is not static. It continually changes - the organisation of sport has changed radically in my lifetime alone, never mind in the past century or more. Every retired athlete, coach or even fan, nostalgically claims that the sport they value is not what it once was. It has gone from localised practices institutionalised amongst communities to national, regional, and now worldwide institutional control that exceeds state or local controls. Yet however modern sport has changed, its base claim throughout its existence is that sport is for a common good. It is time to transform sport rather than allow it to merely change
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
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