Sport Space and National Identity
Soccer and Skiing as Formative Forces: On the Austrian Example
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3755790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roman Horak (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Georg Spitaler (International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, and University of Vienna) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1506-1518 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764203046011004 |
| OpenAlex | W2039207413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 9 |
This contribution will discuss how the formation of a national sport space interacts with the development of national self-awareness and national identity with reference to the Austrian case. It will be argued that the growing of an Austrian identity is not merely synchronous with the establishment of an Austrian sport space but that this nation-building process has been helped along substantially by the "Austrification" of two leading sports: urban soccer (associated with Vienna) and alpine skiing (linked with rural-mainly alpine-Austria
Aesthetics · Identity (music) · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Sociology and Education Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |