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Introduction
No full textAotearoa New Zealand remains touted as an incredibly successful sporting nation despite its small population and arguably geographically remote location. Yet as the Introduction details, a range of challenges for sport and recreation lurk beneath the surface. Through providing an overview of the various chapters in the book, the Introduction outlines how Aotearoa New Zealand has a range of “legacy” issues, particularly in relation to race, ethnicity and gender, while being shaped by forms of tradition, myth, ritual and nostalgia, which many sports are needing to work through. Though there have been a range of government interventions through policies, these have largely been hampered by the strength of Aotearoa New Zealand’s neoliberal orientation. Collectively, the Introduction and the book as a whole metaphorically and symbolically criss-cross the New Zealand sport terrain to unearth some of these issues and tensions, both large and small, that undergird the contemporary sporting landscape
The sorting of gymnasts: An Actor-Network Theory approach to examining talent identification and development in women's artistic gymnastics
No full textTalent identification is a standard part of the high performance sport pathway. In New Zealand, documentation commonly discusses the pathways of the gymnasts as they move through from beginner to high performance gymnasts. As Law (2004, pp. 18–19) notes, such documentation is often ‘clean and reassuring’. In New Zealand, it details the process a gymnast must go through to reach the highest level. This chapter looks beyond these clean and reassuring documents at the selection processes that take place, using an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach. The significance of ANT for this chapter is the way it allows consideration of the role of non-humans alongside humans (Latour, 2005) in the production of gymnastics practice. Thus, as well as considering how a range of human actors are important parts of the gymnastics network, this chapter will also note the role non-humans that are used to identify talented gymnasts. Using data collected through a multi-sited ethnographic study of gymnastics in New Zealand, the chapter examines two points in the talent development process: first, the initial selection of gymnasts into a high performance programme, and second, the selection of gymnasts into the national team
Conclusion
No full textConclusion chapter to the book Women's artistic gymnastics: Socio-cultural perspectives by Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Carly Stewart and Gretchen Ker
Introduction
No full textIntroduction to the book Women's artistic gymnastics: Socio-cultural perspectives by Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Carly Stewart and Gretchen Ker
The neoliberal context and conditions of New Zealand sport
No full textThis chapter draws upon a globalised and localised sense of a Reaganomic/Thatcherism/Rogernomics type of neoliberalism purchased by the New Right from the 1980s onwards. After a brief discussion of neoliberalism and its precepts, we illustrate the specific ramifications on New Zealand sport by discussing several short cases: (1) the advent of a hegemonic “professional” model for New Zealand Rugby; (2) the instigation of public-private “partnerships” for the creation of funded stadia and venues; (3) the lure of attracting and staging mega-events
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested terrain
No full textThis fascinating book investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, "terrains" and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa.
The book unpacks some of the "cliches" around the place, prominence and impact of sport and recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand in order to better understand the country’s sporting history, cultures, institutions and systems, as well as the relationship between sport and different sections of society in the country. Exploring traditional sports such as rugby and cricket, indigenous Māori sport, outdoor recreation and contemporary lifestyle and adventure sports such as marching and parkour, the book examines the contested and conflicting societal, geographical and managerial issues facing contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand sport.
Essential reading for anybody with a particular interest in sport in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book is also illuminating reading for anybody working in the sociology of sport, sport development, sport management, sport history or the wider history, politics and culture of Aotearoa New Zealand or the South Pacific
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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