INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

Volleyball association regarding the establishment of the Volleyball
Academy for Young Talented Girls, we will try to explore, by way of
a descriptive biographical approach, the role and the influence as well
as the difficulties and barriers of the presence of women on the
executive board of sport organizations.
Theoretical framework:
Postmodern thought: deconstructing the knowing self.
Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, despite some divergence in
their theories, all decentre and multiply the subject and reject the
modernist notion of a unified, rational, and expressive subject (Best &
Kellner, 1991). Moreover, they tried to deconstruct the binary way of
thinking of the knowing-self and to provide the otherness with an
inclusive space within the social structures.
Although, Postmodernists doubt that any method, theory, or
discourse has a universal general claim as the “right” or the privileged
form of authoritative knowledge, it does not automatically reject
conventional methods of knowing by stating that they are false or
archaic. It opens those standard methods of inquiry and introduces
new methods, which are then also subject to critique (Richardson,
1994).
In relation to feminism, postmodern thought establishes knowing
feminists, and their critics as particular subjects, with particular
histories, and as engaged in particular struggles around claims to
authoritative knowledge.
In order to achieve authoritative knowledge, the postmodern
approach might need to demand that identities are interrogated, in the
sense that their histories should be questioned, the constitution and
crossings of their boundaries examined, and their multiplicities
enabled, in order to identity what makes some identities powerful in
relation to others, and how this power is exercised.
However, the process of interrogation is not a natural process,
because it is not free from the power relations that shape processes of
knowledge production and political mobilization in a more general
(Ramazanoglu & Holland, 2002).
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