Sports & Politics
It is not an issue of whether sport and politics mix, but how they mix. Discuss this statement with reference to one example from List A and one example from List B.
This essay is going to discuss the presence of both the ideologies of fascism and racism in sport, and their impact on the idea of sport and politics mixing. This will be done using various other works and critiques on these subjects.
Primarily the essay will identify the relationship between sport and politics with a reflection on the notion that sport is political by nature.
It will then look at the up rise of fascism in the early twentieth century in Italy under Mussolini’s jurisdiction, and consequently the effect it had on sport and politics, with relation to the states, societies and sports using historical examples. Thirdly it will discuss one of the key issues of politics in sport- racism; and the impact that the power of politics has in the matter.
Finally this work will summarise the themes chosen and conclude the relationship between politics and sport based on the arguments supported on fascism and racism ideologies.
The relationship between sport and politics has always been fiercely debated, some believing that they do mix, others claiming that they don’t, whilst the rest just assume that politics is inherent within sport despite the care free attitude towards sports- where people see it as one of the greatest forms of escapism. “Sport is a social process for the continuous repression of childhood drives.” (Brohm, 1971). Sport is a vast phenomenon, with it’s popularity ever increasing universally which is why it is a great catalyst for politics in society. Like many other institutions, Sport is conciliated through the means of the State’s apparatus and thus it takes on a political form. “Sport is also an instrument of the bourgeois hegemony, in the Gramscian sense of the word, that is to say it is one of those secondary arms of the state which enable ‘one social group to
This essay is going to discuss the presence of both the ideologies of fascism and racism in sport, and their impact on the idea of sport and politics mixing. This will be done using various other works and critiques on these subjects.
Primarily the essay will identify the relationship between sport and politics with a reflection on the notion that sport is political by nature.
It will then look at the up rise of fascism in the early twentieth century in Italy under Mussolini’s jurisdiction, and consequently the effect it had on sport and politics, with relation to the states, societies and sports using historical examples. Thirdly it will discuss one of the key issues of politics in sport- racism; and the impact that the power of politics has in the matter.
Finally this work will summarise the themes chosen and conclude the relationship between politics and sport based on the arguments supported on fascism and racism ideologies.
The relationship between sport and politics has always been fiercely debated, some believing that they do mix, others claiming that they don’t, whilst the rest just assume that politics is inherent within sport despite the care free attitude towards sports- where people see it as one of the greatest forms of escapism. “Sport is a social process for the continuous repression of childhood drives.” (Brohm, 1971). Sport is a vast phenomenon, with it’s popularity ever increasing universally which is why it is a great catalyst for politics in society. Like many other institutions, Sport is conciliated through the means of the State’s apparatus and thus it takes on a political form. “Sport is also an instrument of the bourgeois hegemony, in the Gramscian sense of the word, that is to say it is one of those secondary arms of the state which enable ‘one social group to