David Whitson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 252337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Whitson |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Whitson |
| FIRMA | WHITSON D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature
Alexander WILSON, The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Toronto: Between the Lines, 1991; 335 pages. $24.95 (paper). Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 13, numéro 1, 1993, p. 3-116) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Public Broadcasting, Sport, and Cultural Citizenship
In this article we examine the recent debate over the continued role of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in airing National Hockey League (NHL) games on its iconic television show, Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) . Specifically, we outline the heightened competition between the CBC and private networks for the most desirable sports rights in the context of the explosive growth of subscription television. We then review how the CBC was, i…
Underestimated Costs and Overestimated Benefits? Comparing the Outcomes of Sports Mega-Events in Canada and Japan
Bringing the world to Canada
Canada is not a peripheral country by most standards. However, since the 1960s, Canadian cities have sought to change the somewhat provincial image they have historically had, and they have used mega-events such as Olympic Games, World Expositions and other 'second order' international sports events to try to reposition themselves on the world stage. This paper examines the place promotion agendas of the two Canadian cities that have hosted Olymp…
The Mills report, the Manley subsidy proposals, and the business of major‐league sport
This article examines the debates over subsidies to professional sports teams that have been the focus of much attention and passion in Canada over the past several years, debates that led to the report by Dennis Mills, Sport in Canada: Everybody's Business , and to John Manley's ill‐fated proposals to offer subsidies to Canadian professional sports operators. The article reviews the arguments put forward by the sports industry: that major‐league…
Patterns, Predictors, and Situational Contexts of HIV Risk Behaviors among Homeless Men and Women
The study discussed in this article investigated psychosocial, relationship, and situational factors associated with HIV risk in a sample of 152 inner-city homeless men and women. Although men at risk of AIDS often had multiple sexual partners, women reported fewer different partners but more frequent unprotected intercourse with them. Different factors were associated with HIV risk level among men and women. In men, high-risk patterns were assoc…
The Global Circus
International sports events have long evoked the discourses and imagery of internationalism while serving as occasions for the advertisement of the host nation and city. This article seeks to explore some of the tensions that follow from this. It has become almost a truism that hosting international events generates enormous benefits for the host city and region. However, the economic evidence examined suggests that although these events provide …
Hockey Night in Canada
Winners and Losers
Hockey night in Canada
Becoming a World-Class City
This paper examines the role that the pursuit of hallmark events and of major league sports franchises has played in the growth strategies of western Canadian cities. Literature on civic boosterism illustrates the vigorous competition that developed among regional elites to establish their own cities as perceived growth centers. These competitions are sharpened today by the contemporary mobility of capital, by media/information networks that focu…
The Game Planners
Discourses of Critique in Sport Sociology
Deconstructing the Discourses of Leisure Management
The paper develops the argument that what is portrayed as a shift in recreation and leisure studies to an “entrepreneurial culture” is a discursive accomplisment that both reflects and reinforces power struggles within the profession and in the political culture which surrounds it. The paper begins with a brief discussion of discourse analysis which is illustrated with critical analyses of the languages of accounting and management. The following…
Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests
David Whitson, Donald MacIntosh, Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests: The Professionalization of Canadian Amateur Sport, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 436-449
Playing for Keeps
Gender & Power
This paper seeks to theorise change and resistance to change in contemporary gender relations as these are manifest in Canadian national sport organisations. Interviews which sought to explore why women were under-represented in senior technical, administrative, and volunteer positions pointed to lack of qualifications and family responsibilities as the two most widely perceived reasons. As many respondents argued though, these phenomena themselv…
Methods and Media
This paper is a preliminary exploration of the construction of meaning in sports telecasting. It starts from the position that the meanings which are routinely present in sports telecasts are not natural. Instead they involve highly mediated representations which actively promote certain "readings" of sport, while at the same time, other potentially alternative readings are rendered more difficult to conceptualize. Therefore the "deconstruction" …
The Place of Sport in Cuba's Foreign Relations
the popularity of baseball and boxing. The two most distinguishing characteristics of sport in Cuba before the revolution were its class structure and its professionalism.1 Amateur sports were almost exclusively the domain of the privileged classes. Only they had access to the resources, in the form of facilities, money, and time, required to be a top athlete. For the small number of people from the underclasses who participated in sport beyond t…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Sport Debates
Sport and Hegemony
This paper seeks to analyze the contribution of sport to a common sense acceptance of the performance principle, and its associated discipline and accountability, as natural and indeed valuable features of social life. It will be our purpose, furthermore, to argue that a conceptual framework incorporating the ideas of “hegemony”, “structure of feeling”, and “dominant, residual, and emergent” cultures, offers significant analytical advantages over…
Pressures on regional games in a dominant metropolitan culture
Today, the dominant culture reaches further than ever before ... into hitherto inaccessible areas of experience and practice and meaning. (Williams, 1977.) This paper examines the current problems which the Scottish sport of shinty faces in endeavouring to remain a living tradition (that is, a well-loved and vital part of local life) in Highland communities which are increasingly accessible to the reach of the dominant, metropolitan culture of th…
The Global Circus
International sports events have long evoked the discourses and imagery of internationalism while serving as occasions for the advertisement of the host nation and city. This article seeks to explore some of the tensions that follow from this. It has become almost a truism that hosting international events generates enormous benefits for the host city and region. However, the economic evidence examined suggests that although these events provide …
Becoming a World-Class City
This paper examines the role that the pursuit of hallmark events and of major league sports franchises has played in the growth strategies of western Canadian cities. Literature on civic boosterism illustrates the vigorous competition that developed among regional elites to establish their own cities as perceived growth centers. These competitions are sharpened today by the contemporary mobility of capital, by media/information networks that focu…
Hockey night in Canada
Bringing the world to Canada
Canada is not a peripheral country by most standards. However, since the 1960s, Canadian cities have sought to change the somewhat provincial image they have historically had, and they have used mega-events such as Olympic Games, World Expositions and other 'second order' international sports events to try to reposition themselves on the world stage. This paper examines the place promotion agendas of the two Canadian cities that have hosted Olymp…
Underestimated Costs and Overestimated Benefits? Comparing the Outcomes of Sports Mega-Events in Canada and Japan
Methods and Media
This paper is a preliminary exploration of the construction of meaning in sports telecasting. It starts from the position that the meanings which are routinely present in sports telecasts are not natural. Instead they involve highly mediated representations which actively promote certain "readings" of sport, while at the same time, other potentially alternative readings are rendered more difficult to conceptualize. Therefore the "deconstruction" …
Sport and Hegemony
This paper seeks to analyze the contribution of sport to a common sense acceptance of the performance principle, and its associated discipline and accountability, as natural and indeed valuable features of social life. It will be our purpose, furthermore, to argue that a conceptual framework incorporating the ideas of “hegemony”, “structure of feeling”, and “dominant, residual, and emergent” cultures, offers significant analytical advantages over…
Public Broadcasting, Sport, and Cultural Citizenship
In this article we examine the recent debate over the continued role of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in airing National Hockey League (NHL) games on its iconic television show, Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) . Specifically, we outline the heightened competition between the CBC and private networks for the most desirable sports rights in the context of the explosive growth of subscription television. We then review how the CBC was, i…
The Mills report, the Manley subsidy proposals, and the business of major‐league sport
This article examines the debates over subsidies to professional sports teams that have been the focus of much attention and passion in Canada over the past several years, debates that led to the report by Dennis Mills, Sport in Canada: Everybody's Business , and to John Manley's ill‐fated proposals to offer subsidies to Canadian professional sports operators. The article reviews the arguments put forward by the sports industry: that major‐league…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Sport Debates
Patterns, Predictors, and Situational Contexts of HIV Risk Behaviors among Homeless Men and Women
The study discussed in this article investigated psychosocial, relationship, and situational factors associated with HIV risk in a sample of 152 inner-city homeless men and women. Although men at risk of AIDS often had multiple sexual partners, women reported fewer different partners but more frequent unprotected intercourse with them. Different factors were associated with HIV risk level among men and women. In men, high-risk patterns were assoc…
Gender & Power
This paper seeks to theorise change and resistance to change in contemporary gender relations as these are manifest in Canadian national sport organisations. Interviews which sought to explore why women were under-represented in senior technical, administrative, and volunteer positions pointed to lack of qualifications and family responsibilities as the two most widely perceived reasons. As many respondents argued though, these phenomena themselv…
Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests
David Whitson, Donald MacIntosh, Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests: The Professionalization of Canadian Amateur Sport, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 436-449
Discourses of Critique in Sport Sociology
Deconstructing the Discourses of Leisure Management
The paper develops the argument that what is portrayed as a shift in recreation and leisure studies to an “entrepreneurial culture” is a discursive accomplisment that both reflects and reinforces power struggles within the profession and in the political culture which surrounds it. The paper begins with a brief discussion of discourse analysis which is illustrated with critical analyses of the languages of accounting and management. The following…
The Place of Sport in Cuba's Foreign Relations
the popularity of baseball and boxing. The two most distinguishing characteristics of sport in Cuba before the revolution were its class structure and its professionalism.1 Amateur sports were almost exclusively the domain of the privileged classes. Only they had access to the resources, in the form of facilities, money, and time, required to be a top athlete. For the small number of people from the underclasses who participated in sport beyond t…
Pressures on regional games in a dominant metropolitan culture
Today, the dominant culture reaches further than ever before ... into hitherto inaccessible areas of experience and practice and meaning. (Williams, 1977.) This paper examines the current problems which the Scottish sport of shinty faces in endeavouring to remain a living tradition (that is, a well-loved and vital part of local life) in Highland communities which are increasingly accessible to the reach of the dominant, metropolitan culture of th…
Sport and Hegemony
This paper seeks to analyze the contribution of sport to a common sense acceptance of the performance principle, and its associated discipline and accountability, as natural and indeed valuable features of social life. It will be our purpose, furthermore, to argue that a conceptual framework incorporating the ideas of “hegemony”, “structure of feeling”, and “dominant, residual, and emergent” cultures, offers significant analytical advantages over…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Sport Debates
Methods and Media
This paper is a preliminary exploration of the construction of meaning in sports telecasting. It starts from the position that the meanings which are routinely present in sports telecasts are not natural. Instead they involve highly mediated representations which actively promote certain "readings" of sport, while at the same time, other potentially alternative readings are rendered more difficult to conceptualize. Therefore the "deconstruction" …
The Place of Sport in Cuba's Foreign Relations
the popularity of baseball and boxing. The two most distinguishing characteristics of sport in Cuba before the revolution were its class structure and its professionalism.1 Amateur sports were almost exclusively the domain of the privileged classes. Only they had access to the resources, in the form of facilities, money, and time, required to be a top athlete. For the small number of people from the underclasses who participated in sport beyond t…
Discourses of Critique in Sport Sociology
Deconstructing the Discourses of Leisure Management
The paper develops the argument that what is portrayed as a shift in recreation and leisure studies to an “entrepreneurial culture” is a discursive accomplisment that both reflects and reinforces power struggles within the profession and in the political culture which surrounds it. The paper begins with a brief discussion of discourse analysis which is illustrated with critical analyses of the languages of accounting and management. The following…
Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests
David Whitson, Donald MacIntosh, Rational Planning vs. Regional Interests: The Professionalization of Canadian Amateur Sport, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 436-449
Playing for Keeps
Gender & Power
This paper seeks to theorise change and resistance to change in contemporary gender relations as these are manifest in Canadian national sport organisations. Interviews which sought to explore why women were under-represented in senior technical, administrative, and volunteer positions pointed to lack of qualifications and family responsibilities as the two most widely perceived reasons. As many respondents argued though, these phenomena themselv…
The Game Planners
Hockey night in Canada
Becoming a World-Class City
This paper examines the role that the pursuit of hallmark events and of major league sports franchises has played in the growth strategies of western Canadian cities. Literature on civic boosterism illustrates the vigorous competition that developed among regional elites to establish their own cities as perceived growth centers. These competitions are sharpened today by the contemporary mobility of capital, by media/information networks that focu…
Winners and Losers
Hockey Night in Canada
The Global Circus
International sports events have long evoked the discourses and imagery of internationalism while serving as occasions for the advertisement of the host nation and city. This article seeks to explore some of the tensions that follow from this. It has become almost a truism that hosting international events generates enormous benefits for the host city and region. However, the economic evidence examined suggests that although these events provide …
Patterns, Predictors, and Situational Contexts of HIV Risk Behaviors among Homeless Men and Women
The study discussed in this article investigated psychosocial, relationship, and situational factors associated with HIV risk in a sample of 152 inner-city homeless men and women. Although men at risk of AIDS often had multiple sexual partners, women reported fewer different partners but more frequent unprotected intercourse with them. Different factors were associated with HIV risk level among men and women. In men, high-risk patterns were assoc…
The Mills report, the Manley subsidy proposals, and the business of major‐league sport
This article examines the debates over subsidies to professional sports teams that have been the focus of much attention and passion in Canada over the past several years, debates that led to the report by Dennis Mills, Sport in Canada: Everybody's Business , and to John Manley's ill‐fated proposals to offer subsidies to Canadian professional sports operators. The article reviews the arguments put forward by the sports industry: that major‐league…
Bringing the world to Canada
Canada is not a peripheral country by most standards. However, since the 1960s, Canadian cities have sought to change the somewhat provincial image they have historically had, and they have used mega-events such as Olympic Games, World Expositions and other 'second order' international sports events to try to reposition themselves on the world stage. This paper examines the place promotion agendas of the two Canadian cities that have hosted Olymp…
Underestimated Costs and Overestimated Benefits? Comparing the Outcomes of Sports Mega-Events in Canada and Japan
Public Broadcasting, Sport, and Cultural Citizenship
In this article we examine the recent debate over the continued role of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in airing National Hockey League (NHL) games on its iconic television show, Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) . Specifically, we outline the heightened competition between the CBC and private networks for the most desirable sports rights in the context of the explosive growth of subscription television. We then review how the CBC was, i…
Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature
Alexander WILSON, The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Toronto: Between the Lines, 1991; 335 pages. $24.95 (paper). Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 13, numéro 1, 1993, p. 3-116) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
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