Papers by Michel van Slobbe
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 2019
Culture and Organization, 2016
Sport in Society, 2013
ABSTRACT This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white... more ABSTRACT This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white Dutch management towards an ethnically diverse management of an amateur football club. The article is based on a three-year period of ethnographic fieldwork in a football club, located in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in the Netherlands. We argue that the transition led to contested understandings of cultural practices and artefacts within the club. The meaning-making processes of the club’s organizational culture reinforced us-them divisions between the two groups. What is at stake is the symbolic ownership of the club that comes from a deep-rooted desire among members of sport clubs to be ‘among themselves’. The findings suggest that apparent equity in terms of shared participation in the club’s management does not necessarily lead to bridging of ethnic differences on the level of the club’s culture.
Government control in social relations between ethnic groups in sports clubs and society at large... more Government control in social relations between ethnic groups in sports clubs and society at large can be understood by viewing them from an established-outsider perspective. If we examine this at the microlevel, we see that neither the government nor the club are aware of the shifts in the balance of power in these figurations. Formalization and professionalization serve to highlight and heighten the relationships between groups of members. Sports clubs are voluntary organizations in which members get together on a voluntary basis and are committed to the members in their own group, the ‘amongst ourselves association’. Although well intentioned, the ambition to achieve an improvement of the social relations between ethnic groups within the club and by extension in the neighbourhood is highly complex, ambitious and problematic. This is because forced mixing of groups heightens the tensions in social relations. ‘Amongst ourselves associations’ are extremely important as social hubs, i...
European Sport Management Quarterly, 2013
This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white Dutch ma... more This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white Dutch management towards an ethnically diverse management of an amateur football club. The article is based on a three-year period of ethnographic fieldwork in a football club, located in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in the Netherlands. We argue that the transition led to contested understandings of cultural practices and artefacts within the club. The meaning-making processes of the club’s organizational culture reinforced us-them divisions between the two groups. What is at stake is the symbolic ownership of the club that comes from a deep-rooted desire among members of sport clubs to be ‘among themselves’. The findings suggest that apparent equity in terms of shared participation in the club’s management does not necessarily lead to bridging of ethnic differences on the level of the club’s culture.
Articles by Michel van Slobbe
Sport in Society, 2013
This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white Dutch ma... more This article discusses ethnographic research on the planned transition from an all-white Dutch management towards an ethnically diverse management of an amateur football club. The article is based on a three-year period of ethnographic fieldwork in a football club, located in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in the Netherlands. We argue that the transition led to contested understandings of cultural practices and artefacts within the club. The meaning-making processes of the club’s organizational culture reinforced us-them divisions between the two groups. What is at stake is the symbolic ownership of the club that comes from a deep-rooted desire among members of sport clubs to be ‘among themselves’. The findings suggest that apparent equity in terms of shared participation in the club’s management does not necessarily lead to bridging of ethnic differences on the level of the club’s culture.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430437.2013.821257#.UhMeTUoso4k
Special issues by Michel van Slobbe
Special issue of Culture and Organization (2016), vol 22, issue 3
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Papers by Michel van Slobbe
Articles by Michel van Slobbe
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759551.2016.1169586#abstract
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430437.2013.821257#.UhMeTUoso4k
Special issues by Michel van Slobbe
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759551.2016.1169586#abstract
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430437.2013.821257#.UhMeTUoso4k