| Abstrakt: |
By using Michel Foucault's approach to discourse analysis, this study aimed to clarify the difference between the discourse regarding political participation by non-profit community sports clubs in the context of social movement studies and the discourse on "lobbying the government" in club management practices, within the context of political participation. This also included an appraisal of whether social movement studies are effective for researching the activities of non-profit community sports clubs. For the discourse analysis, I made estimates that were analogous to the characteristics of the "lobbying the government" discourse (i.e. by what and how it is influenced) with reference to the practice of club management by identifying thoughts and perceptions supporting the discourse. Based on the results obtained, I proposed a new research perspective for social movement studies that would contribute to the practice of club management. I identified 3 characteristics in the "lobbying the government" discourse: First, the content of the "support" provided by the government to community sports clubs was characterizing the discourse. This created a discourse constraint that prevented the community sports clubs from being portrayed as social movement organizations. Second, the alleged equal "partnership" between the government and the community sports clubs was constraining the discourse. Because of this, the discourse was bound to focus on the club's equal relationship with the government, even when the club was simply a convenient means of outsourcing for the government. Third, regarding the relationship with the government, club management practices should be free from the discourse constraints with key terms such as "support" and "partnership". Therefore, on this basis I would propose the need for a language strategy in order to explore the potential of community sports clubs participating in politics, and not just remaining as NPOs that act as intermediate support organizations to supplement government activities portrayed in social movement studies. Based on these results, it was proposed that the future practice of club managers requires a discourse that explores the possibility of political participation by targeting the significance of intermediate support organizations as social movements, similarly to the concept of "lobbying the government". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
