How French is ‘French’ Sport?

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Philip Dine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
National Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Challenges

This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive national model may be seen to have been exposed to powerful transnational forces between 1985 and 2015, a period which also corresponds to sport's digital age. The sports primarily targeted are football and athletics, the most visibly international of modern games, as highlighted by their quadrennial showcases: the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The resulting case studies are intended to suggest some of the ways in which the state, the media and the relevant federations have responded to the multiple challenges of the corporate-financed and electronically mediated ‘global sporting system’. Featured athletes include Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marie-José Pérec and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad.

scholarly journals The state of heritage and cultural property policing in England & Wales, France and Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Economies

Presenting a large threat to irreplaceable heritage, property, cultural knowledge and cultural economies across the world, heritage and cultural property crimes offer case studies through which to consider the challenges, choices and practices that shape 21st-century policing. This article uses empirical research conducted in England & Wales, France and Italy to examine heritage and cultural property policing. It considers the threat before investigating three crucial questions. First, who is involved in this policing? Second, how are they involved in this policing? Third, why are they involved? This last question is the most important and is central to the article as it examines why, in an era of severe economic challenges for the governments in the case studies, the public sector would choose to lead policing.

scholarly journals Property and the State or ‘The Folly of Torrens’: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fitzpatrick ◽  
Caroline Compton ◽  
Joseph Foukona
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Social Orders

Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which positivist land laws, including Torrens systems of title by registration, create legal understandings of property that are tied closely to projections or assumptions of state territorial authority. The intertwining of property and sovereignty constructs allodial conceptions of property based on possession or custom as subordinate, if not illegal, simply because they exist in social orders that lie beyond the administrative systems of the state. As a result, there is a chronic fragmentation of legal and social understandings of property in areas of the world with Torrens law and large numbers of informal settlements. The case studies include the Philippines and the Solomon Islands.

scholarly journals Los Dibujos Animados: herramienta para la educación

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
IPC USMA
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Valuable Content

A través de los años, los medios de comunicación se han posicionado como el cuarto poder del estado al ser una herramienta transmisora de contenido “valioso” para la sociedad. Ese contenido se despliega en diversos géneros, con el objetivo de transmitir mensajes, impartir conceptos y entretener, utilizando diversas técnicas, especialmente los dibujos animados, para captar en su audiencia a la niñez, especialmente. Estos dibujos son producidos en una diversidad de colores, tamaños y temas, muchas veces presentando contenido no aptos para su audiencia. Esta investigación propone, primero una clasificación de esos dibujos animados, según su contenido. Y en segunda instancia, comprender las preferencias de dibujos animados que los estudiantes de sexto grado de escuelas primarias oficiales urbanas, demuestran. La investigación focalizo dos casos de estudio, el de mayor y menor puntaje según las pruebas TERCE.   Abstract Over the years, the media has positioned itself as the fourth power in the world to be a transmitting tool of "valuable" content for society. This content is deployed in different genres, with the aim of transmitting messages, imparting concepts and entertaining, using different techniques, especially cartoons, to capture in their audience the childhood, especially. These drawings are produced in a variety of colors, sizes and themes, often presenting content not suitable for your audience. This research proposes, first, a classification of these cartoons, according to their content. And second, understand the cartoon preferences that sixth grade students from urban official elementary schools demonstrate. The research focused on two case studies, the highest and lowest score according to TERCE tests.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF FAN ZONES IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

space&FORM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (44) ◽  
pp. 249-260
Author(s):  
Yuliana Petrovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Training Design ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
The World ◽  
The Olympic Games

The present article examines the question of organization of official fan zones in Kyiv and other cities of the world during the Olympic Games, World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and other sports events, their location indoors and in open areas. The paper identifies specific features and sets of elements for formation of fan zones, examines scholarly works on the issue of organization of fan zones in the urban environment, describes the methodology of the scientific research, presents pilot projects of design of fan zones for watching sports contests in the course training design.

scholarly journals A Philosophical Survey Of The Influence Of The Mdeia On Violence Among Youths

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Ephraim Ahamefula Ikegbu ◽  
Peter Bisong Bisong ◽  
Enyimba Maduka
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Equal Capacity

The media are like a two-edged sword; it could built, it could also destroy. It has the capacity to increase the virtue level of a society; it also has an equal capacity to increase the vices of the society. From surveys it appears to these writers that, the media at present is wielding its vicious powers more. An increase in cases of homicides, terrorism, crime, violence and other social ills in the world is a clear testimony to this assertion. Since the state or the government exists to produce virtues in the citizens, it is imperative that the government takes serious steps to curb the dysfunctional effects of the media on the citizens and the society at large. The government should not be left alone to do this, the religious leaders, physicians, psychologists, philosophers, parents and the media practitioners themselves need to contribute their quota to evolve a media of our dreams – a media that would yield positive and beneficial fruits to the society. The media should be an instrument aimed at shaping the lives of the youth and the society. As an educative, instructive, didactic and healing therapeutic facility, the negatives associated with the media should be avoided by aspiring to embrace the positive effects of their relevance.

An Ordinary Country

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-690
Author(s):  
Dilip Menon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Imagination

South Africans see themselves as a nation that loves sport, but with the World Cup in football imminent, there appears to be a sense of exhaustion both in the media and among the population. One important reason is that football does not dominate the public imagination of sport, as cricket and rugby do. The game is played and loved in the black townships, the fortunes of African football-playing nations are followed devotedly, and players such as Didier Drogba have a larger-than-life standing in the country. But football has not become a metaphor for the nation, as rugby and cricket have become. Whether this reflects a racial affiliation alone is hard to get at, because the local team, Bafana (which could be genially translated as “the boys”), are eighty-eighth in the FIFA rankings, without a ghost of a chance of winning the Cup, while at rugby and cricket, South Africa are world beaters.

scholarly journals Rozbor úspěšnosti střelby reprezentačního družstva mužů ČR v biatlonu v letech 2002–2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Jan Ondráček ◽  
Sylva Hřebíčková ◽  
Božena Paugschová ◽  
Jan Mezník
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Running Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Winter Olympic Games

The successful implementation of the biathlon shooting is necessary condition for overall success in the race. In the biggest competitions, such as the World Cup, World Championship and Winter Olympic Games, even one failed hit on the shooting-range leads to the rejection of the sportsman from the fi ght for the victory in whole race. Th e main aim of our thesis is to compare successful shooting of the men´s team of the Czech Republic with the winners of above mentioned word competitions. We were discovering the improvement of the successful shooting of the Czech team compared to the control group of winners in the worldwide competitions during two Olympic cycles in the seasons 2002/2003 – 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 – 2009/2010. As the base we have used data from DATACENTER, available on offi cial web pages of the International biathlon organisation IBU. We have assessed 3 basic domaines: shooting success, speed of the shooting performance and running time. Th e running time was assessed for the completion of the study of the successful shooting. Continual backwardness of the Czech representatives has been found in all observed domaines. Findings presented should help coaches to fi nd reserves at work with the athletes especially in the shooting part of the biathlon.

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