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Sport In Africa - Do Women Have A Chance?

13 November 2002

While Africa is rapidly improving in the world of sport, we should ask ourselves where are the African sportswomen? In this presentation I will explain how surviving and succeeding in sport as a woman is still a nightmare for...[more]




Women in Sports Media: Time for a Victory Lap?

12 November 2002

Research findings of the routine, day-to-day amount of coverage of women in sport, remain that female athletes are still, in many cases, symbolically annihilated. Changes are happening, but media researcher Alina Bernstein asks...[more]




The human power of Sport for All; Berman Turnfest Leipzig 2002

11 November 2002

Sports has lost its innocence as the most important "minor matter" in the world. Modern sports of today have many faces.[more]




Popular Identity in Sport and Culture - about Living Democracy

29 October 2002

Sport is fascinating - but not innocent. As a mirror of societal oppositions, sport is full of tensions.[more]




The National, the Global, the Tribal - a Trialectical Approach to the Identity Question in Sports

29 October 2002

Sport has a deep psychological dimension of identity building. When people are playing, they form social patterns expressing who "we" are.[more]




The Symbolic Significance of Traditional Sports and Games. Pre- or Postmodernism? - a Cross Cultural Perspective

29 October 2002

In the study of functions and survival conditions for traditional sports and games in different European regions five factors play an important part.[more]




Victims of Passive Doping

14 November 2000

How can we describe a press corps that up until 1998 passively hitched a ride on the professional cycling caravan, allowing the riders to lift share values up with them into the mountains?[more]




In Search of Personal and National Identity

13 November 2000

Globalization confronts the world with new paradoxes. While the market by its commercial logic tends to unify consumption and life on a global level, nation building appears as a counterstrategy.[more]




Race and Sport: The Social Costs of Black Dominance

13 November 2000

The past century of integrated sport has demonstrated that interracial athletic competition has both positive and negative effects.[more]




Painting 1

12 November 2000

Painting with poem.[more]




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