Competition and Imagination: The Imposed Goal between Sportsmanship/Championship and Nationalism

• Main Authors: Yi-Hsuan Wu, 吳翊瑄
• Other Authors: Hsu-Ta Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91181182753651577832

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化學系 === 99 === The project focuses on a high school women’s soccer team [Hualein, Taiwan], in order to portray the training experiences of soccer players and their narratives, thereby penetrating the meaning of sports culture as well as nationalist imagination. The project is considered as an anthropological fieldwork, through which interview surveys, long-term participation observation, and media analysis are conducted. The imposed goal, in terms of an altered evaluation of sportsmanship and championship, is manipulated by nationalism, in consider to the crucial international status that Taiwan has been encountering with. “Sports” hence becomes an immense, added complicated concept, involved with subjects such as sex/gender, ethics, media, and national identity. As a result, nationalism conceptualizes and further creates the definitions of athletic honor and the goal of physical education system, of which the athletes’ hard-to-grasp dreams are developed and intensified. Through these soccer players’ narratives on personal training experiences, the athletes however vivify a precious persistent value toward the understanding of sportsmanship/championship that dominated by nationalism.