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SPORT, POLITICS, AND THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES: SYNTHESIZING IDENTITY POLITICS AND GLOBAL EMANCIPATION THROUGH NEO-PRAGMATIC RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY

Hardes, Jennifer Jane
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210586293

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Educational Services and Research.
This thesis examines a shift in sport sociology toward post-structurally underpinned identity-based politics. As a result, sport sociologists fail to reflect on macro level political issues such as human rights, due in large measure to the epistemological rejection of metanarratives of post-structurally oriented scholars. Implicit in this thesis is a tension between foundationalism and anti-foundationalism, which I synthesize through a Hegelian dialectical argument. I use the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as an empirical example of the implications that rejecting metanarratives entails, and I argue that reconciliation of micro and macro level politics is essential through means of pragmatic radical democratic theory, in order to provide a moral purchase for scholars when dealing with issues requiring wide-scale emancipation, while, concomitantly, pertaining to sport sociology's calls for micro level identity-based work.
Melvin Adelman, PhD (Advisor)
Sarah Fields, PhD (Committee Member)
130 p.
Education
identity; post-structuralism; human rights; 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; politics; universalism

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  • Hardes, J. J. (2008). SPORT, POLITICS, AND THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES: SYNTHESIZING IDENTITY POLITICS AND GLOBAL EMANCIPATION THROUGH NEO-PRAGMATIC RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210586293

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hardes, Jennifer. SPORT, POLITICS, AND THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES: SYNTHESIZING IDENTITY POLITICS AND GLOBAL EMANCIPATION THROUGH NEO-PRAGMATIC RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210586293.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hardes, Jennifer. "SPORT, POLITICS, AND THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES: SYNTHESIZING IDENTITY POLITICS AND GLOBAL EMANCIPATION THROUGH NEO-PRAGMATIC RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210586293

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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