Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures
The Arctic Winter Games (AWG) are a high-level circumpolar sports competition, which includes wide participation sports (such as hockey), 'traditional' Arctic sports, Dene games as well as emerging/potential sports (such as archery) (reports on past games; Lankford et al. (2010; 2015)). In...
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ftunivbrest:oai:HAL:hal-04325173v1 2024-01-07T09:41:20+01:00 Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures Bertet, Elina Fuchs, Julien Centre de Recherche sur l'Education, les apprentissages et la didactique (CREAD EA 3875) Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS) Université de Brest (UBO) Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Faculté des sciences du sport et de l'éducation (UBO UFR SSE) Université d'Ottawa Ontario (uOttawa) Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Brest) Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS) Ottawa (Ontario), Canada 2023-08-14 https://hal.science/hal-04325173 en eng HAL CCSD hal-04325173 https://hal.science/hal-04325173 World congress of sociology of sport (ISSA 2023) https://hal.science/hal-04325173 World congress of sociology of sport (ISSA 2023), Aug 2023, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2023 ftunivbrest 2023-12-12T23:36:05Z The Arctic Winter Games (AWG) are a high-level circumpolar sports competition, which includes wide participation sports (such as hockey), 'traditional' Arctic sports, Dene games as well as emerging/potential sports (such as archery) (reports on past games; Lankford et al. (2010; 2015)). In such a context, "where tradition and modernity meet to create unity in diversity” (Thomsen et al., 2018), the question of athletic identity, widely studied in terms of "measurable achievement and social recognition” (Ronkainen et al, 2016), may not be as evident for participants from some Northern communities, where the cultural logic of cooperative practice tends to downplay the symbolic importance attached to results (Heine, 2013). We interrogate the place of sport in the lives of participants of the AWG 2023 through interview and a survey answers where they describe and define themselves as athletes. As the AWG develop "by integrating local cultures and territorial identities" (Fuchs, 2022), we can expect results in line with other studies of regional games that show a more participatory and less excellence-oriented approach (Dallaire, 2007) presenting sport as a means to "build bridges between cultures" (Skogvang, 2021). However, based "around a sporting reference, which remains dominant" (Fuchs, 2022) we can assume the existence of variations between the different sporting practices of the AWG. Conference Object Arctic Université de Bretagne Occidentale: HAL Arctic Canada Fuchs ENVELOPE(-68.666,-68.666,-67.233,-67.233) Thomsen ENVELOPE(-66.232,-66.232,-65.794,-65.794) Heine ENVELOPE(167.450,167.450,-78.083,-78.083) Ronkainen ENVELOPE(29.183,29.183,65.700,65.700) Skogvang ENVELOPE(20.511,20.511,69.515,69.515) |
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The Arctic Winter Games (AWG) are a high-level circumpolar sports competition, which includes wide participation sports (such as hockey), 'traditional' Arctic sports, Dene games as well as emerging/potential sports (such as archery) (reports on past games; Lankford et al. (2010; 2015)). In such a context, "where tradition and modernity meet to create unity in diversity” (Thomsen et al., 2018), the question of athletic identity, widely studied in terms of "measurable achievement and social recognition” (Ronkainen et al, 2016), may not be as evident for participants from some Northern communities, where the cultural logic of cooperative practice tends to downplay the symbolic importance attached to results (Heine, 2013). We interrogate the place of sport in the lives of participants of the AWG 2023 through interview and a survey answers where they describe and define themselves as athletes. As the AWG develop "by integrating local cultures and territorial identities" (Fuchs, 2022), we can expect results in line with other studies of regional games that show a more participatory and less excellence-oriented approach (Dallaire, 2007) presenting sport as a means to "build bridges between cultures" (Skogvang, 2021). However, based "around a sporting reference, which remains dominant" (Fuchs, 2022) we can assume the existence of variations between the different sporting practices of the AWG. |
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Centre de Recherche sur l'Education, les apprentissages et la didactique (CREAD EA 3875) Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS) Université de Brest (UBO) Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Faculté des sciences du sport et de l'éducation (UBO UFR SSE) Université d'Ottawa Ontario (uOttawa) Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Brest) Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS) |
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Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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Athletic identity of Arctic Winter Games (AWG) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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athletic identity of arctic winter games (awg) participants: between a sporting reference and local cultures |
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World congress of sociology of sport (ISSA 2023) https://hal.science/hal-04325173 World congress of sociology of sport (ISSA 2023), Aug 2023, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada |
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