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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"amateurism"”.
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The Perpetuation of Nineteenth Century Amateurism as a British Virtue in Modern Olympic Track & Field
… originally founded on the concept of amateurism. These organizations included the International Olympic Committee, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (now called World Athletics), the Amateur Athletic Union, Amateur Athletic Association, and amateur athletic clubs of …
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‘So proved themselves supreme in women’s hockey throughout the world’: a history of English and British international women’s hockey 1951–2016
… sport policy and the IOC’s ambivalence towards amateurism. More critically, the FIH broke off relations with their counterpart International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) after the IOC introduced women’s hockey to the Olympic Summer Games schedule in 1980. No longer able to …
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Amateurs, cash amateurs and professionals : a social and cultural history of bicycle racing in New Zealand, 1869-1910
… however, room for localised variations. Cash amateurism, it will be argued, was one such local solution to the problem of reconciling the ideologies of amateurism and laissez-faire capitalism, the divergence of which was sharply identifiable in bicycle racing. The overarching thesis is thus …
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‘Will you walk into our parlour?’: The rise of leagues and their impact on the governance of women’s hockey in England 1895-1939
… Another aim is to explore how the concept of amateurism influenced, and was moulded by, a team sport played by women. Much has been written about the ethos within British sport, but mostly in relation to men’s athletic pursuits. The AEWHA’s unique position as the first sport governing body in …
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The authority of the NCAA and its member institutions over student athletes
… NCAA involved by-laws concerning the areas of amateurism, recruiting, eligibility involving academic and general requirements, compensation, and enforcement Other issues involved violations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and Title VI. The …
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Ground Under Repair: Balancing Conformity and Non-Conformity in Women's Golf in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… and international competition, class, and amateurism and entrepreneurship it seeks to demonstrate the important place women created for themselves within golf. Drawing primarily from contemporary golfing magazines, books written by golfing women of the era, and newspaper articles about …
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Class, commercialism and community in the originsand development of northern Rugby Football Union, 1857-1910.
… and the counter-development of the ideology of amateurism as a method of suppressing this, culminating in the Rugby Football Union's introduction of its first set of regulations intended to stamp out incipient professionalism, which were supported by both the northern and southern leaderships of …
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The Growth of an Urban Sporting Culture – Middlesbrough, c.1870-1914
… in Middlesbrough’s sporting culture. Amateurism is also explored through the initial rejection of professional football, but the thesis will illustrate the increased popularity of the professional game during this period. In addition, in view of Middlesbrough’s migrant population, the …
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The profiling of robbery offenders
… terms of an apparent scale of professionalism to amateurism. Within armed robbery, target hardening strategies appear to have reduced opportunities for professionals, with a corresponding increase in amateur armed robbers fuelled by drug habits. The empirical study found that levels of interaction …
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Home-Being: Creating Dwelling in the Digital Age
… subjectivity, work and home, professionalism and amateurism and experiences of creation and inhabitation into correspondence through a caring active engagement. Exploring the practice of home creation with digital media as something that goes beyond the creation of content on and for social media …
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Johanna Kinkel’s Lieder Compositions as a Socio-Political and Cultural Mirror of Her Time: A Reflective Interpretation
… and the private domain, professionalism and amateurism, and ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ styles. These dichotomies are research tools, but they do not fully reflect the nineteenth-century reality. Finally, in accordance with Nicholas Cook’s concept of musical scores as social scripts, Kinkel’s …
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Creating the ‘Disoeuvre’: interpreting feminist interventions as an expanded artistic practice in negotiation with art’s institutions
… works were produced. Concomitant issues of amateurism, professionalism, pedagogy and practice are discussed. The third chapter reflects on second wave feminist analyses of reproductive labour as unrecognised but essential to capitalist economies, and the relation between this and the …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
… and poor, and how to reconcile an ideology of amateurism with an increasing need to concentrate administrative power in financial experts. Far from a sideshow or a hindrance, rhetorical debate was central to successful financial decision-making because it enabled the ideological negotiation of …
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Art in India's 'Age of Reform': Amateurs, Print Culture, and the Transformation of the East India Company, c.1813-1858
Two images of British India persist in the modern imagination: first, an eighteenth-century world of incipient multiculturalism, of sexual adventure amidst the hazy smoke of hookah pipes; and second, the grandiose imperialism of the Victorian Raj, its vast public buildings and stiff upper lip. No …