{"id":49259,"date":"2018-02-08T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49259"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:07","slug":"stevens-unified-south-korea-north-korea-womens-hockey-team-will-help-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/stevens-unified-south-korea-north-korea-womens-hockey-team-will-help-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVENS: Unified South Korea-North Korea women\u2019s hockey team will help the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Stevens,\u00a0Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director of the Centre for Sport Capacity, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/player-or-pawn-womens-hockey-the-olympics-and-the-korean-dynamic-90815?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=twitterbutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece in The Conversation<\/a> about the approval of the International Olympic Committee to allow a unified South Korea-North Korea women&#8217;s hockey team for the upcoming Games in PyeongChang.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Based upon these two perspectives, and research I have conducted over many years, I believe the decision will help the game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s because it offers an opportunity to build a sense of community that has always been central to female hockey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I explored this theme in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.humankinetics.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1123\/wspaj.9.2.123\">article<\/a>\u00a0on community in Canadian women\u2019s hockey in which I noted that as women\u2019s hockey evolved from grassroots to international levels, it experienced a shift from collectivism and collegiality towards individuality and elitism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I argued such change was detrimental to the female game. But the combined Korean team may provide the context for a return to collective thinking as a key part to building female hockey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The IOC decision also offers an opportunity to build legitimacy for the female game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/player-or-pawn-womens-hockey-the-olympics-and-the-korean-dynamic-90815?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=twitterbutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Stevens,\u00a0Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director of the Centre for Sport Capacity, wrote a piece in The Conversation about the approval of the International Olympic Committee to allow a unified South Korea-North Korea women&#8217;s hockey team for the upcoming Games in PyeongChang.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[3696,5747,4883,668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49262,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259\/revisions\/49262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}