Internationell politik och fotboll- Hur fotboll kan bidra till förändring
(2022) STVK02 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to study the international soccer and politics from an theoretical standpoint and try two different theoretical approaches that has been developed and see if they can answer why a large international aid organization like UNHCR would like to collaborate with the Swedish soccer team Malmö FF. In this paper the theory of Sport-diplomacy and The Global Football Field will be the two theoretical approaches discussed and analyzed with empirical materials from interviews and publications. Partnerships between large international organizations and soccer teams is not specially common and has has not really been analyzed from this perspective before. Togheter the two theories manage to give an explanation to the causes of... (More)
- The aim of this paper is to study the international soccer and politics from an theoretical standpoint and try two different theoretical approaches that has been developed and see if they can answer why a large international aid organization like UNHCR would like to collaborate with the Swedish soccer team Malmö FF. In this paper the theory of Sport-diplomacy and The Global Football Field will be the two theoretical approaches discussed and analyzed with empirical materials from interviews and publications. Partnerships between large international organizations and soccer teams is not specially common and has has not really been analyzed from this perspective before. Togheter the two theories manage to give an explanation to the causes of this rare case. The results shown in this paper gives opportunities and reasoning for future studies to develop because as this study will show, the theories that has been developed today do not independently manage to describe the causes of the collaboration that the empirical material show (Less)
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- author
- Holman, Amanda LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Hall LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- International politics, Soccer, The Global Football Field, Sport-diplomacy, UNHCR, Malmö FF
- language
- Swedish
- additional info
- Tack till min handledare Martin Hall och tack till alla jag pratat med hos Malmö FF samt UNHCR.
- id
- 9080104
- date added to LUP
- 2022-07-03 08:15:33
- date last changed
- 2022-07-03 08:15:33
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