Olympic Games and Indigenous Peoples: Possible Change in Global Sport towards Indigenous Sovereignties?

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/stuter/article/view/926/750" target="_blank" >https://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/stuter/article/view/926/750</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2025.4" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363231.2025.4</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Olympic Games and Indigenous Peoples: Possible Change in Global Sport towards Indigenous Sovereignties?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Indigenous peoples have appeared at the Olympic Games since the beginning of the twentieth century not only as participants of contemporary “human zoo” performances, but as competitors in regular sport disciplines. Since then, their presence at these mega-events has varied, in relation to local and transnational politics. Although the idea of sport as a tool for development and change has been widely spread through global NGOs and global events, such as the Olympics, sovereignty issues of Indigenous peoples in general remain unsolved. For decades, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted on Rule 50, which banned any sort of political protest during the Olympic Games. Recently, some global sport federations have begun to challenge this rule of the IOC in solidarity with the anti-racist Black Lives Matter movement. This paper seeks to address two main questions: How and if does the presence of the Indigenous peoples shape these largest global sport international events and their organizers? Does the presence of Indigenous peoples at the Olym-pics lead to potential changes of Olympic discourses related to Indigenous sovereignties? The paper argues that the IOC keeps shaping how Indigenous identities are portrayed, even though Indigenous participants work towards gaining the recognition of Indigenous sovereignties in relation to the Olympic structures.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Olympic Games and Indigenous Peoples: Possible Change in Global Sport towards Indigenous Sovereignties?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Indigenous peoples have appeared at the Olympic Games since the beginning of the twentieth century not only as participants of contemporary “human zoo” performances, but as competitors in regular sport disciplines. Since then, their presence at these mega-events has varied, in relation to local and transnational politics. Although the idea of sport as a tool for development and change has been widely spread through global NGOs and global events, such as the Olympics, sovereignty issues of Indigenous peoples in general remain unsolved. For decades, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted on Rule 50, which banned any sort of political protest during the Olympic Games. Recently, some global sport federations have begun to challenge this rule of the IOC in solidarity with the anti-racist Black Lives Matter movement. This paper seeks to address two main questions: How and if does the presence of the Indigenous peoples shape these largest global sport international events and their organizers? Does the presence of Indigenous peoples at the Olym-pics lead to potential changes of Olympic discourses related to Indigenous sovereignties? The paper argues that the IOC keeps shaping how Indigenous identities are portrayed, even though Indigenous participants work towards gaining the recognition of Indigenous sovereignties in relation to the Olympic structures.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia

ISSN

1213-4449

e-ISSN

2336-3231

Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

71-97

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105003273805