Sport and Development in the Czech Republic: Sport as a Tool for Social and Cultural Transformation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15510/21:73606623

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sport and Development in the Czech Republic: Sport as a Tool for Social and Cultural Transformation

Original language description

The chapter introduces the history and the current state of sport and its social role in the Czech Republic. The goal of the chapter is twofold: First, the historical part focuses on depicting the cultural and political position of sporting activities and new organisations within the process of establishment of Czech civil society under the surveillance of Austro-Hungarian authorities throughout the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Then, mass sporting activities as a tool for support of the Communist regime are presented. Second, the last three decades of evolution of sport-for-development initiatives are introduced together with critical appraisal of several specific projects. Theoretically, the chapter builds on Coalter’s sport plus and plus sport typology and Astle’s continuum of a) sport and development for parallel coexistence of sports and society, b) sport for development for sports as an accelerator of international recognition of the Czech lands or sharing different experience among diverse cultures, and c) development through sport for the deliberate use of sport for legitimation of political regimes or for motivating people through the popularity of sport. Furthermore, several recent programmes fall into the category of development of sport trying to encourage mass participation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Sport and Development in Emerging Nations

ISBN

978-0-367-90360-2

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

44-57

Number of pages of the book

243

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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