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Despite a widely held, and not entirely erroneous, view that the
cultures of East and Southeast Asia commonly favour the mind over
the body or, at least mental activity rather than physical
endeavour, this collection of essays sheds light on the wide range
of diverse ways in which sport and body cultures feature in that
part of the world. Contributors to the collection work in many
different countries but are united in their shared interest in
increasing our understanding of the social role of sport and body
cultures which is manifest in their work. The countries that are
discussed are Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Singapore,
Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Netherlands New Guinea. Themes
considered in these chapters are the implications of hosting sport
events, the focus on sport and the body by a group of Buddhist
monastics, belly dancing in the lives of women in Taiwan, the
sociopolitical role of the scouting movement in a colonial setting,
and issues relating to the functioning of sport clubs. The chapters
were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and
Social Science.
Despite a widely held, and not entirely erroneous, view that the
cultures of East and Southeast Asia commonly favour the mind over
the body or, at least mental activity rather than physical
endeavour, this collection of essays sheds light on the wide range
of diverse ways in which sport and body cultures feature in that
part of the world. Contributors to the collection work in many
different countries but are united in their shared interest in
increasing our understanding of the social role of sport and body
cultures which is manifest in their work. The countries that are
discussed are Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Singapore,
Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Netherlands New Guinea. Themes
considered in these chapters are the implications of hosting sport
events, the focus on sport and the body by a group of Buddhist
monastics, belly dancing in the lives of women in Taiwan, the
sociopolitical role of the scouting movement in a colonial setting,
and issues relating to the functioning of sport clubs. The chapters
were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and
Social Science.
In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its national rebirth, modernity and
international arrival by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta.
Since then, Indonesia has hosted several other major multi-sport
events as well as numerous tournaments in a single sport. But the
return to Jakarta in 2018 of the 18th Asian Games was significant:
for the first time in the history of the Games, they were
co-hosted: Palembang, capital of South Sumatra, staged the event
together with Jakarta. These arrangements - and their success -
reflected a new reality in Indonesia; the Jakarta-centric,
one-nation autocracy of the New Order regime has been replaced by
regional autonomy, local agency, and evolving center-periphery
relationships. With heightened inter-city rivalry, greater
attention is paid to marketing cities and regions than ever before.
Palembang exemplifies this civic transformation. A once grimy
industrial backwater has become an attractive regular fixture in
the international sporting calendar. In part this has been achieved
by urban renewal and targeted construction projects but equally
important has been a coherent strategy adopted by local leaders and
officials to promote Palembang as Indonesia's sports city and make
it not just a prime sporting venue but also a sports tourism
destination. In her new study, Friederike Trotier draws on the
examples of Palembang and Jakarta to map the evolution of
Indonesia's sporting history, then uses her analysis as a lens to
reflect on the country's transformation since 1998. Here, she
considers political aspirations and changes, power structures and
global influences in the host country and its cities. She also
scrutinizes the role of sports events in relation to national and
local politics and links them to the increase in city marketing,
local agency and inter-city competition in post-Suharto Indonesia.
A key argument is that sports events reflect the country's
development in the past two decades from being nation-centric -
where Jakarta had a dominant place - to being far more
decentralized; here, in the new structure of regional autonomy,
cities have a heightened role as arenas of representation. The
result is an impressive revisualization of Indonesia's recent
sociopolitical transformation.
In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its national rebirth, modernity and
international arrival by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta.
Since then, Indonesia has hosted several other major multi-sport
events as well as numerous tournaments in a single sport. But the
return to Jakarta in 2018 of the 18th Asian Games was significant:
for the first time in the history of the Games, they were
co-hosted: Palembang, capital of South Sumatra, staged the event
together with Jakarta. These arrangements - and their success -
reflected a new reality in Indonesia; the Jakarta-centric,
one-nation autocracy of the New Order regime has been replaced by
regional autonomy, local agency, and evolving center-periphery
relationships. With heightened inter-city rivalry, greater
attention is paid to marketing cities and regions than ever before.
Palembang exemplifies this civic transformation. A once grimy
industrial backwater has become an attractive regular fixture in
the international sporting calendar. In part this has been achieved
by urban renewal and targeted construction projects but equally
important has been a coherent strategy adopted by local leaders and
officials to promote Palembang as Indonesia's sports city and make
it not just a prime sporting venue but also a sports tourism
destination. In her new study, Friederike Trotier draws on the
examples of Palembang and Jakarta to map the evolution of
Indonesia's sporting history, then uses her analysis as a lens to
reflect on the country's transformation since 1998. Here, she
considers political aspirations and changes, power structures and
global influences in the host country and its cities. She also
scrutinizes the role of sports events in relation to national and
local politics and links them to the increase in city marketing,
local agency and inter-city competition in post-Suharto Indonesia.
A key argument is that sports events reflect the country's
development in the past two decades from being nation-centric -
where Jakarta had a dominant place - to being far more
decentralized; here, in the new structure of regional autonomy,
cities have a heightened role as arenas of representation. The
result is an impressive revisualization of Indonesia's recent
sociopolitical transformation.
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