Socio-cultural transformations of tennis in the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15510/19:73593897
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315533575-13" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315533575-13</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315533575-13" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781315533575-13</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Socio-cultural transformations of tennis in the Czech Republic
Original language description
In the Czech countries - the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, within the former Czechoslovakia - tennis is historically one of the most popular sports. At the top level, it has produced a number of Grand Slam winners. Simultaneously, it maintained high numbers of registered players. However, as is the case in many areas of Czech society and culture throughout the whole 20th century, it was heavily afflicted by the political context and changes. Against this backdrop, this chapter provides a socio-historical account of the role and position of tennis in the Czech countries since its introduction in the 19th century until today, with a particular focus on the development of tennis before and after the 'Velvet Revolution' in 1989. We pay attention to symbolic struggles over the definition and meaning of tennis in sporting, political, economic and social arenas. First, we briefly outline the roots of tennis in Czech countries. Next, we focus on the development of tennis in the socialist regime and explore its socio-cultural nature established and maintained behind the official label of tennis as a 'bourgeois' sport. We explain that notwithstanding symbolic marginalization of tennis, the centralized sport policy and systematic support of youth sport together with massive sport volunteering resulted in numerous international successes. The 'Velvet Revolution' in 1989 brought fundamental transformations with the inflow of private funding. Tennis movement experienced struggles between former and newly established tennis officials, with the latter group distinguishing itself from the 'old socialist order'.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Routledge Handbook of Tennis
ISBN
978-1-138-69193-3
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
130-140
Number of pages of the book
479
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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