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| Title: | Heresy as a victorious political practice : grass-roots politics in Norwegian sports 1972-1975 |
| Authors: | Lippe, Gerd von der |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Abstract: | This article deals with a question of sport politics: the fight for female
participation in the most popular running competition in Norway between 1972-
75. The focus is on the process from doxa (what we take for granted), through
heterodoxa (the effort to challenge the doxa) and at the end ‘winning the game’.
Most research in sport politics has focused on formal politics in sports
organizations and official political aims of the state, but not, as in this paper, on
informal counter-cultural movements and ‘ad-hoc-groups’. This is also an
example of how private experiences become official stories. The approach used
is that of the life story (my own, personal account of a particular experience),
with some elements of life history (in the sense that I am placing my story into a
particular cultural, social and political context). In addition to the use of
Bourdieu’s concepts of doxa, heterodoxa and symbolic power, Mary Douglas’s
symbolic systems of purity and dirt are also used in the analysis. The article
demonstrates, through the life history method, how sport interlinked with gender
politics and wider political alliances is challenging the sports establishment. |
| Keywords: | Sport politics
Gender studies
Women |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Document type: | Journal article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/373 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for idretts- og friluftslivsfag
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