2010年南非世界杯的政治社会学遗产

Political Legacies of the 2010 World Cup

南非承办2010年世界杯在其国内引发了大量的游行、罢工和其他形式的公民示威活动。本文分析并评估了激进主义者在决赛期间的行为动机、行为逻辑以及相关影响;并尝试将其放置在更宏观的背景下,去阐释激进主义者对南非"政府—社会"关系态势的影响。并结合当时公众抗议行动的实际情况,探索社会基层民众参与行动的根本原因以及大型体育赛事社会动员的外部政策影响。其次,考虑了这些行动对南非社会政策进程的长期、持续的影响。研究认为,世界杯等大型体育赛事并不仅仅是一个能够快速提升国家形象的战略机遇,更是为南非社会活动组织提供了额外平台,来争取公民权益。

South Africa＇s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup saw a large number of public demonstrations, strikes and other forms of civic campaigning. This paper assesses the motivations, forms and implications of the activism during South Africa＇s staging of the FIFA finals and interprets them against the larger context of shifting state-society relations in the country. There are two purposes to the analysis. First, to explore the underlying internal social forces that gave shape to the protests at the time, and the possible influence of the exogenous politics of mega-event social mobilizatioru Second, the implications and outcomes of these dynamics for longer term socio-political processes in the country are considered. The activism displayed many of the features of the politics of contestation of sport mega-events today. Therefore, while the World Cup was used as a strategic opportunity by many advocacy groups, it was one that rather fleetingly and ambivalently presented an additional platform to such groups in an otherwise on-going set of political battles.