Essays about: "sports politics"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words sports politics.

  1. 6. A Sense of Place : Outdoor Pursuits and Cabin Fever. A Nordic Haven for Gender Equality

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Charlotte Fisher; [2018]
    Keywords : Gender Equality; Carnal Sociology; Sense Of Place; Heterotopia; Sweden; Cabins; Sports.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to examine how Swedish ‘sommarstuga’ (Summer Cottage) or ‘cabins’ contributes to the production of gender equal values. This ethnographic work is based on the central case study of the members from Uppsala Extremsportförening, (UppX) and their interactions during two cabin trips; one to a surf cabin in Ericeira Portugal and the other a family cabin in Ängskärs, Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 7. From Offense to Defense : The Political Discourse and Use of Sports in Putin’s Russia from a Historical Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Jeroen Bart; [2017]
    Keywords : sport; politics; Europe; nationalism; Russia; discourse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis looks into the political discourse surrounding the doping scandal that has developed in Russian sport over the last two years. The paper hypothesizes that because of the importance of nationalism and Russia’s great power status, the Putin regime has, despite publicly stating the opposite, actively contributed to the further politicization of sport by returning to a sport discourse closely resembling that of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. READ MORE

  4. 8. The state of local journalism : A comparative study of local journalistic output in three Swedish municipalities.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Erika Hellekant Rowe; [2016]
    Keywords : Local journalism; content analysis; news ecology; democracy; social identity; Lokaljournalistik; innehållsanalys; nyhetsekologi; demokrati; social identitet;

    Abstract : Journalism plays a central role in the liberal democratic society and it enables the citizens to make informed decisions. In a local community it also holds many social functions such as creating a common local identity and a geographical belonging. READ MORE

  5. 9. Online inference of topics : Implementation of the topic model Latent Dirichlet Allocation using an online variational bayes inference algorithm to sort news articles

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Kim Wedenberg; Alexander Sjöberg; [2014]
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    Abstract : The client of the project has problems with complex queries and noisewhen querying their stream of five million news articles per day. Thisresults in much manual work when sorting and pruning the search result of their query. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Hidden Game : A comparative study on rugby and soccer in modern South African society

    University essay from Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Per M. Gjörloff; Robert Gustafsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; South Africa; Subaltern; rugby; soccer; sports; gender; race; politics;

    Abstract : The popular discourse has it that sports take a big part in the everyday life of South Africa. Given its segregated past, we ask the question on how the media discourse were on race, politics and gender during the formative period of circa 1990-1995. READ MORE