‘The Product of the Town Itself’: Community Representation and the Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges of the Kenora Thistles, 1903–1907

This case study of community representation in Canadian hockey analyzes media accounts of four Stanley Cup hockey series played by the Kenora Thistles between 1903 and 1907. It examines newspaper coverage of the Thistles hockey club as it moved from an amateur team represented by players with roots in their home community to a professional aggregation that included paid imports from outside the town. The essay explores the relationship between sport and civic identity during a key time of change in top-level hockey. The dominant narrative surrounding the Thistles portrayed players as true ‘members’ of the town of Kenora. Even after the turn to professionalism, narratives of small-town, amateur purity and close connections to the community characterized coverage of the Thistles as they pursued the Stanley Cup. At the same time, however, a growing emphasis on securing the personnel that could ensure victory led to praise for the club’s efforts to please its supporters, or ‘customers’. As a result, this study of notions of civic representation in early hockey provides insight into the process by which sports teams came to be viewed as symbolic representatives of their communities.     

品牌的体育营销--《恒大的体育营销模式》

体育营销在国外已经是十分成熟的营销手段之一,体育营销作为一个新的概念引进中国也就几十年。但是就在中国的这几十年中有过成功的辉煌,也有过失败的教训。文章通过介绍体育营销概念、效果、国内外体育营销的现状;从而引出现当下热议的恒大集团。文章探讨了恒大的体育营销模式,从恒大集团为什么选择体育营销,到恒大集团赞助龙舟赛事开始最终拥有自己的职业俱乐部,让恒大集团从默默无闻到人竟皆知;恒大集团的每个决策都让恒大有了新的飞跃。     

论目标管理在我国企业中的应用--以联想公司为例

目标管理在全球众多的公司中已经得到成功运用,在我国如何有效运用已成为企业面临的现实课题。基于目标管理理念,分析其在我国企业中的应用现状及存在的问题,在总结经验教训的基础上,对企业如何实施目标管理提出具体对策和建议,以便为我国企业管理实践提供有益借鉴。     

《司岗里》传说:佤族走失文明的历史再现

佤族没有文字,其历史文化均以口耳相传的方式传承下来,这为佤族历史文化的解读提供了诸多可能。佤族创世神话《司岗里》流传于整个阿佤山地带,乃至缅甸、泰国、老挝、柬埔寨、印度,内容不仅涵盖了宇宙、人类及万物的起源,还包括了佤族及其先祖数千年颠沛流离的迁徙史。当我们将这部神话传说与失落千年的古滇国文化、夜郎文化、哀牢文化和石佛洞文化进行链接的时候,佤族那段走失的文明便会以另一种方式再现。     

图书馆传统参考咨询服务存在的问题及对策探究

随着图书馆日益走向数字化、网络化和市场化,其传统的参考咨询服务无论服务内容、服务对象,还是服务手段、方式以及信息源等方面都远远落后于时代发展的需要。因此,图书馆应变革传统的咨询服务,使咨询服务内容全面化、咨询服务对象全球化、咨询服务队伍专业化、咨询服务方式和服务手段现代化,只有这样,图书馆咨询服务才能满足社会需求。     

表象训练在“二十四式”教学中的应用研究

针对武术项目教学"三多"的问题,以人体生理学运动技能形成的过程为切入点,在传统的"二十四式"教学方法的基础上采用对比实验法、数理统计法、文献资料等研究方法,对表象训练法的教学效果进行研究。实验证明这种教学方法能激发学生的学习主观想象力,达到更好的教学效果。     

论安·塞克斯顿诗歌《灰姑娘》中的重复

美国现代作家塞克斯顿在其诗歌《灰姑娘》中运用类像和怪异两种重复方式对原格林童话进行了成功的"变形",揭示了后现代社会的表征危机以及消费主义文化。     

Studying culture-cognition relations in collective practices of daily life: a research framework / El estudio de las relaciones cultura-cognición en las prácticas colectivas cotidianas: un modelo de investigación

This article sketches a framework for the study and analysis of culture-cognition relations that I present in my recent book, Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies. Taking an historical approach, I focus on the reproduction and alteration of representational forms for number and the functions that representational forms serve in collective practices in and out of school. My key argument is that, in the context of their goal-directed communicative activities in collective practices in daily life, people unwittingly reproduce and alter representational forms and the functions that these forms serve. The process leads to continuities and discontinuities in form-function relations in communities over historical time. To provide evidence for this process and its role in the cultural development of ideas, I report selected findings from research conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 in Oksapmin communities; I focus on historical shifts in the forms and functions of the Oksapmin body part counting system over time. I then update that body of research with a sketch of a recent 2014 follow-up study. I close with reflections on the utility of my framework for the study of culture-cognition relations in other communities and on cognitive domains other than mathematics.     

Researching female professors: the difficulties of representation,positionality and power in feminist research

This article draws on findings from my doctoral research to exemplify some of the difficulties I encountered when interviewing 20 female professors¹1. In the UK context, the title of ‘professor’ is reserved for full professors only – that is, those with either an established or personal chair. and subsequently writing about their life histories. In this article, I discuss how I addressed the issues of representing and positioning my participants, and I reflect on the power dynamics present in the research process. The article contends that by drawing on Bourdieu and Wacquant's [An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press] understanding of reflexivity and feminist interpretations of their work including McNay [“Gender, Habitus and the Field: Pierre Bourdieu and the Limits of Reflexivity.” Theory Culture Society 16: 95] and Adkins [“Reflexivity Freedom or Habit of Gender?” Theory Culture Society 20: 21], valuable research can be produced, despite the difficulties. A related aim of this paper is to reflect back after four years in an academic post on my position as a novice researcher, and some of the associated issues facing doctoral students, particularly the problems with researching upwards [Walford, G. 2011 Walford, G. 2011. “Researching the Powerful.” British Educational Research Association on-line resource. Accessed March 17, 2014. www.bera.ac.uk/system/files/Researching%20the%20Powerful.pdf [Google Scholar]. “Researching the Powerful. British Educational Research Association On-line Resource.” Accessed March 17, 2014. www.bera.ac.uk/system/files/Researching%20the%20Powerful.pdfWalford 2011].