Power and Politics in World Athletics

A Critical History

Jörg Krieger (Aarhus University, Denmark)

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English

Routledge
21 June 2021

Politics & government; Track & field sports, athletics

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics. The book critically assesses the internal power relations within the IAAF by focusing on the IAAF leadership.

Based on extensive archival research, Power and Politics in World Athletics offers a nuanced analysis of the institutionalised strategies that developed as a reflection of the IAAF’s interests and aims to create a broader understanding of the global sport system. With only six presidents in over a century of existence, the IAAF’s leaders had profound impacts on other international institutions, national stakeholders and sporting participants. Through four sections, the book identifies various key turning points in the history of the governing body of athletics, and explores the IAAF’s foundation, the policies of past IAAF presidents, and controversial issues such as doping, corruption and manipulation through a socio-historical lens. The book shows that while anyone could take part in athletics, policies enacted by each president served to ostracize those groups who did not fit into the IAAF’s vision of an equal playing field.

This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in sport history, sport sociology, the politics of sport, sport management, sport governance, or international organisations.

By: Jörg Krieger (Aarhus University Denmark)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780367434472
ISBN 10: 0367434474
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 21 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction. Part 1: Formation. 1. Getting Under Way: The Federation’s Genesis. 2. Expanding and Shielding the (Male) Monopoly. 3. Origins of Controversial Politics and Principles. Part 2: Stagnation. 4. A New World Faced with Old Views: Burghley’s Political Battle Grounds. 5. Of Depositors and Frankensteins: Growth and its Consequences. 6. A Clash of Ideas: Amateurism Meets Adidas. 7. The Scientification of Doping and Gender. Part 3: Transformation. 8. Transitionary Leadership: Paulen’s Presidency. 9. Nebiolo and the Money: Commercialisation and Professionalisation. 10. Nebiolo and the Power: Clientelism and Control. 11. Nebiolo and the Athletes: Marginalised Entertainers. Part 4: Exploitation. 12. Diack’s Assumption of Power: ""The King is Dead, Long Live the King"". 13. A Critical Analysis of Athletics’ Governance in the 21st Century. Concluding Remarks."

Jörg Krieger is Associate Professor for Sport and Social Science at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Sport History from the German Sport University Cologne. He is Chair of the Research Network Sport & Society and a Co-Director of the International Network for Doping Research.

Reviews for Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History

""It is a convincing and damning critique of the organisation and culture of an international federation; one that asserts the importance of the federations and the informal networks that sustain their power. In doing so Krieger shows the need for similar critical assessments of other international federations. This is an essential contribution to our understandings of sport governance"" – Malcolm MacLean, University of Gibraltar and University of Queensland, idrottsforum.org ""Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History is a fascinating, diligently-researched account of the powerful and secretive organisation identified for most of its history by the acronym, IAAF … an excellent and wide-ranging analysis’ – David Owen, Chief Columnist, insidethegames.biz