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The Nationalism's Evolution And The Olympic Development

Posted on:2009-02-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:R B WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360275463838Subject:Humanities and sociology
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As one kind of emotion,ideology or social movement,the nationalism is founded on nation' s elements of nationality,national identity and national interest.Has being symbiotic in the modern world history,the nationalism and the Olympic Movement have influenced on each other and connected together.The nationalism evolved different paradigms and models;the Olympic Movement also searched path leading to its ideal of harmonious internationalism in the field of nation-states' game.It is a coincidence between renaissance of the modern Olympics and rise of the nationalism in Europe.There are four nationalistic key factors which result in renaissance of the Olympics:the origin of nationalism in western Europe being symbolized by French revolutionary,lose in the Prussian-French War,educational modernazition in the Third Republic and historical expericence of sportive nationalism in modern Europe.The Olympic syetem designed by Coubertin was displayed on following paradoxes:game of nationalism and internationalism in idea level,homogeny of internationalization and trans-nationization in organization level,combination of individualism and nationalism in human resoures level.The spread of nationalism was accompanied with early growth of the Olympic Movement.In the spilt of sport geography and politics geography, the hunting between old and new colonial poweres was on going.The nation-state' s thirst for being recognized by IOC and struggling for triumph was on evidence.The Nordic cultural nationalism being oriented to language and ethnicity turned its thirst to ambition of Nazism,then the flag symbolizing extre-nationalism both flyed over the Berlin Games' stadium and was inserted at position of the World War.The Olympic movement grew step by step after survival of the blood and sword.By establishing the jungle rules,the nationalism dispersed globally, then embarrassed the Olympic Movement with principle of 'sports having nothing with politics' in trouble of idea and action.Gaining acceptance, inventing national heroes,uniting geographically and allying in Africa with antiapartheid revealed the appeal to national liberation and mightiness by the new nation-states in Asia,Africa and Latin America. The schism and blocs in the Cold War was incapable of concealing dispute on national interests and chauvinism' hegemony.The Games against boycott which contained multiple facets of ideology hardly decared the death of the Olympic Games.In the turnaround of globalization and nationalism,the nationalism issues in the Olympic Movement got the chance of dispersing and retreating. However,conflicts between civilizations perhaps indicate the complex situation faced by nationalism in the globalization times.Being mingled with midia imperialism,global capitalist and national-state' discourse, the cultural imperialism became one aspect of cultural homogenization in the Olympic Movement.The Chinese nationalism which embodied in cosmopolitanism took new responsibility to make local culture survived and realized multiculturalism of the Olympic Movement.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nationalism, The Olympic Movement, Evolution, Development
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