Byron Peacock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3043161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Peacock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Peacock |
| SIGNATURE | PEACOCK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sport and Diplomacy
This article explores the potent yet ambiguous possibilities of sport as it relates to diplomacy. It surveys the range of actors that have engaged in sport diplomacy, and how these have changed – and broadened – in the incomplete transition from ‘club’ to ‘network’ diplomacy. In particular, the article highlights the distinctive and often highly influential role of international sports organizations, along with state governments, intergovernmenta…
Political celebrity and the Olympic movement
In this paper, we explore the modernization of the role of President of the \nInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) by analyzing the actions of three men who \nheld the position during the 20th century: Pierre de Coubertin, Avery Brundage, and \nJuan Antonio Samaranch. Employing Weber’s concept of charismatic authority, and \nconsidering its connections to, and congruence with, contemporary understandings \nof political celebrity, we examine how …
Catching up
As a category, Developmental States (DS) in the world political economy express a distinctive set of ideological practices that give them specific incentives to host sporting mega-events. Asian DSs, or ‘late(r) developers’, in particular offer interesting case studies by which to explore the symbolic value such states attach to hosting Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and other major sporting events. This paper examines five Asian examples (Tok…
A Secret Instinct of Social Preservation’
Despite the relative novelty of the contemporary sport-for-development movement, instrumentalising sport for purposes of human and collective development is nothing new. The International Olympic Committee's (ioc) belated efforts to play a leadership role in this movement is ironic, given its 117-year commitment to placing sport at the service of world-cultural ideals of progress, equality, development, modernisation and international understandi…
Catching up
As a category, Developmental States (DS) in the world political economy express a distinctive set of ideological practices that give them specific incentives to host sporting mega-events. Asian DSs, or ‘late(r) developers’, in particular offer interesting case studies by which to explore the symbolic value such states attach to hosting Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and other major sporting events. This paper examines five Asian examples (Tok…
A Secret Instinct of Social Preservation’
Despite the relative novelty of the contemporary sport-for-development movement, instrumentalising sport for purposes of human and collective development is nothing new. The International Olympic Committee's (ioc) belated efforts to play a leadership role in this movement is ironic, given its 117-year commitment to placing sport at the service of world-cultural ideals of progress, equality, development, modernisation and international understandi…
Political celebrity and the Olympic movement
In this paper, we explore the modernization of the role of President of the \nInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) by analyzing the actions of three men who \nheld the position during the 20th century: Pierre de Coubertin, Avery Brundage, and \nJuan Antonio Samaranch. Employing Weber’s concept of charismatic authority, and \nconsidering its connections to, and congruence with, contemporary understandings \nof political celebrity, we examine how …
Catching up
As a category, Developmental States (DS) in the world political economy express a distinctive set of ideological practices that give them specific incentives to host sporting mega-events. Asian DSs, or ‘late(r) developers’, in particular offer interesting case studies by which to explore the symbolic value such states attach to hosting Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and other major sporting events. This paper examines five Asian examples (Tok…
A Secret Instinct of Social Preservation’
Despite the relative novelty of the contemporary sport-for-development movement, instrumentalising sport for purposes of human and collective development is nothing new. The International Olympic Committee's (ioc) belated efforts to play a leadership role in this movement is ironic, given its 117-year commitment to placing sport at the service of world-cultural ideals of progress, equality, development, modernisation and international understandi…
Political celebrity and the Olympic movement
In this paper, we explore the modernization of the role of President of the \nInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) by analyzing the actions of three men who \nheld the position during the 20th century: Pierre de Coubertin, Avery Brundage, and \nJuan Antonio Samaranch. Employing Weber’s concept of charismatic authority, and \nconsidering its connections to, and congruence with, contemporary understandings \nof political celebrity, we examine how …
Sport and Diplomacy
This article explores the potent yet ambiguous possibilities of sport as it relates to diplomacy. It surveys the range of actors that have engaged in sport diplomacy, and how these have changed – and broadened – in the incomplete transition from ‘club’ to ‘network’ diplomacy. In particular, the article highlights the distinctive and often highly influential role of international sports organizations, along with state governments, intergovernmenta…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legitimacy (2 works)