Patriot Games Research Articles

The content and structure of the educational discipline "Military-patriotic education" for the preparation of applicants for the specialty 017 "Physical culture and sports"

The full-scale war in Ukraine determined the educational strategy of the state regarding the organization and implementation of military-patriotic education and military-patriotic training of youth. The article presents the content and elements of the structure of the educational discipline "Military-patriotic education" for the preparation of applicants for the "Physical culture and sports" specialty. Research methods used: analysis of educational and methodological literature; study of scientific publications on the subject of research; systematization and generalization of information; study of regulatory documentation regarding the organization of the educational process in institutions of higher education.
 The training course contains three credits, 2 content modules: the basics of military and patriotic education; physical and military training. The goal of the educational discipline is to form the affirmation of national identity, patriotic consciousness, a sense of loyalty and love for Ukraine, readiness to fulfill the civic and constitutional duty to protect national interests, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine based on real heroic examples of Ukrainians.
 The educational course includes the following topics: structure and content of military-patriotic education; history of the Ukrainian army and military service; state symbols of Ukraine; military and patriotic games; general physical training; fire training; topographic preparation; tactical training; tactical medicine.
 During the study, relevant competences are formed. The system of values, which Ukraine demonstrates by its own example and the highest price of Ukrainian Heroes, is assimilated; the formation of patriotic values, education of respect and dignity, features of the Ukrainian mentality; acquisition of skills and abilities in military applied training.

ГРАЖДАНСКО-ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКИЙ ПРОЕКТ «89.RUS» И ЕГО РОЛЬ В ЛИЧНОСТНОМ И ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОМ РАЗВИТИИ БУДУЩИХ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ

Professional and personal development and professional education of students are among the urgent problems of higher education, including pedagogical education. Being in the teaching profession, a young specialist should be aware of responsibility for the actions performed, understand their consequences, and possess those qualities that would meet the challenges and demands of modern society. Pedagogical universities face a difficult task to organize the educational process in such a way that it ensures sufficient assimilation of knowledge, contributes to the formation of necessary professional skills and value orientations. The socio-cultural environment of the university, aimed at mastering the norms of relationships, communication, and leisure activities by students, plays a separate role in the implementation of this task. One of the elements of the socio-cultural environment of the Samara State Socio-Pedagogical University is the civilpatriotic project "89.rus", the purpose, content and meaning of which are disclosed in this article. The methodology of a number of events is described. Among them are a lecture on the history of the state symbols of the Russian Federation, the civic and patriotic games "Victory" and "Russia is my country". Examples of individual tasks used when working with students are presented, information support for the project is demonstrated on the website of the Department of General Biology, Ecology and Teaching Methods, as well as on the pages of the textbook "A short course on the basics of Russian Statehood". It is concluded that the developed project ensures the personal and professional development of future teachers.

Labour and the Patriot Game

AbstractThe Labour Party has recently been advised to showcase its patriotism and let the electorate know it is proud to be British. This is never bad advice for a mainstream political party with designs on power and certainly Labour in the past has enjoyed electoral success when its redistributionist policies have sprung, at least in part, from an obvious love of country. There's a certain urgency, too, in the suggestion, since the Corbyn leadership convinced many former Labour voters that the party was careless about a British identity and perhaps even hostile to British interests. Nevertheless, it would be foolish for Keir Starmer's Labour Party to enter into a destructive competition with the Tories to see who looks better with the national flag. For reasons which the article explores, there are strict limits beyond which a social democratic party would not care to go in such a contest. But this ought not matter. Voters do not want to see Labour leaders telling them how patriotic they are. They are content to be shown. This article surveys the history and looks at some possibilities inherent in Labour and the patriot game.

Patriot Games, War Games, and Political Football: A Constructivist Analysis of Militarization in an American Sport

AbstractI argue that constructivism can help us understand the political dimension of sports generally and specifically the norms, meaning, and social identity of American football. More specifically, I contend that football’s development in the United States built it into a cultural force associated with militarist and patriotic norms that politicians could leverage for political support when deep domestic divisions existed concerning national security. This phenomenon resulted from the game’s social transformation from a primarily civilian, leisure-time form of recreation and entertainment into a socially constructed symbol for military recruitment by a reinforcing “gridiron triangle” comprised of actors from the military bureaucracy, football teams and leagues, and the sports media. Because of this social phenomenon, American presidents such as Richard Nixon and Donald Trump have attempted to use football as a cultural asset for bolstering support when their national security credentials were seriously questioned. In the case of Nixon, it happened when the United States was divided over the Vietnam War. As for the Trump administration, a similar situation emerged amid investigations of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign and the subsequent manipulation of military aid designed to contain Russian expansion in Ukraine for partisan, electoral gains.

The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene

Reviewed by: The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene Deirdre O'Leary The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer. By Nicholas Grene. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Cloth $71.40, Paper $20.96, eBook $18.86. xv + 252 pages. There are several challenges to writing a monograph about celebrated Irish playwright Tom Murphy (1935-2018). First, there is his prodigious output: twenty full-length plays, eight adaptations, six television plays, and one novel. While other writers have also amassed significant bodies of work, the sheer number and variety of dramatic genres making up Murphy's dramaturgy render neat categorization of his work difficult. From the realism of A Whistle in the Dark, to the expressionism of A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant, the history play Famine, the gangster noir of The Blue Macushla, the domestic drama The Wake, and the allegorical The Sanctuary Lamp, Murphy's dramatic oeuvre is purposefully referential, polyphonic, and frustrating for the writer hoping to describe a singular style as distinctly his. Finally, there is Murphy's practice of revising each of his works every time one is revived. Thus, many of his plays exist in multiple published versions. Yet Murphy's very mix of genres and stylistic approaches warrants Nicholas Grene's insightful analysis. [End Page 143] Significantly, The Theatre of Tom Murphy makes rich use of the Tom Murphy archive, which formally opened at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2010. Grene focuses his study on all of Murphy's original plays, supplementing his analyses with meticulous research into every draft, revision, and author note. The result is a nuanced study of Murphy's complex dramaturgy as a practice of revision, where his dramas are understood as literary texts, performance texts, and texts in revision. Where Grene succeeds most is in tracing and documenting the development of Murphy's storytelling and mapping his plays' shifting relationships with scholars and audiences. His book is an immensely valuable addition to the field of Irish theatre. Grene organizes his study across eight chapters, beginning with the author's critical biography. The remaining chapters are grouped thematically, rather than chronologically. Chapter 2 traces the development of Murphy's first play, On the Outside (1959), and its companion, On the Inside (1974). The works are considered in relation to two other early works, A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant (1969) and A Whistle in the Dark, Murphy's early breakthrough hit of 1961. The grouping of these plays allows for a thematic consideration of the male characters having been shaped, as well as limited, by the patriarchal grip of the Catholic church, the class divisions rampant in the Irish economy, and the gendered nationalist discourse of the free state. Chapter 3 considers Murphy's attempt to stage plays based on foundational periods of Irish history. While the focus of the chapter is on his major play Famine (1968), Grene links this with two lesser known works, The Patriot Game (1991), a commemorative play about the 1916 rising, and his wildly unsuccessful The J. Arthur Maginnis Story (1976), a spoof history about storytelling and the making of Guinness. Grene considers the relationship of staging "history" in the Active medium of theatre, and considers how the reception of such history changes as audiences are further removed from the historical events depicted. Chapter 4 pairs The Blue Macushla (1980) with Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and documents Murphy's practice of revision. Grene provides valuable research into the extended eighteen-year genesis of Homecoming. Chapters 5 and 6 focus on themes of location and dislocation, with The Wake (1998) and The House (2000) demonstrating Murphy's use of the most Irish of mise-en-scènes, the rural domestic space. In both plays he considers how material acquisitiveness informs twenty-first-century ideas of Celtic Tiger Irishness. Conversely, The Sanctuary Lamp (1975) and The Morning After Optimism (1971) are not bound by specific temporal or spatial settings—The Sanctuary Lamp is set in a church (religion not specified) and Optimism is set in a forest. In both plays he creates theatre worlds in which time and history are not integral to the...

The Genocide and the Rising: Drama withstanding the past

This essay proposes a comparative analysis of the plays Exile in the cradle (2003), by Lorne Shirinian, which dramatizes the Armenian genocide (1915), and The Patriot Game (1991), by Tom Murphy, which revives the Irish insurrection known as Easter Rising (1916), focusing on their female characters, who did not experience those events but still face their aftermath. When compared, besides the consideration about women and how they have been excluded from the traditional accounts, both texts reveal a dialogue with respect to resistance, national liberation and its implications for future generations. In this sense, revisionism may be also a form of overcoming unfortunate components and adjusting the understanding of the past.

Virtual Patriot Games: American Football in The Times of London, 1888–1910

This study examines the American football press coverage in the Times of London from 1888 to November 1910. The time span covers the paper’s first mention of the game to the first game played in England. This period also coincides with increasing anxiety about the strength of the British Empire and unwanted American influences. During this time, athletic contests between the two nations turned into sites for the construction of national identities. Adapting the sport scholar Emma Poulton’s concept of ‘mediated patriot games’, the author argues that the American football coverage of the Times of London could be considered ‘virtual patriot games’, as the absence of domestic American football teams did not allow for direct competition. Two related narrative elements. The stories in the Times framed gridiron football as the pastime of the ‘other’, including translating rules and comparing the merits of rugby and American football. The reports also focused on the American game’s violence, confirming older traditions in British imaginations of America. Advancements in communication technologies, especially the telegraphic wire, were critical for the immediacy with which British readers consumed American sporting news. Contrary to current scholarship, British interpretations of American culture through gridiron football developed much earlier than the post-1970s information age.

Dominic Behan and the Beginnings of Television ‘Troubles’ Drama

Focusing on the largely forgotten television plays of Dominic Behan, this article examines how productions such as The Patriot Game (1969), Carson Country (1972) and The Folk Singer (1972) made use of song, self-conscious artifice and the mixing of artistic modes in order to engage with Irish history and question traditional forms of Irish patriotism. In doing so, the article also locates Behan’s work at a particular moment in television history when the conventions of television ‘troubles’ drama had yet to solidify and were open to formal experiment and the expression of unfamiliar viewpoints if also then liable to become the object of controversy.

ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONDITIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN SLOBOZHANSHCHYNA GYMNASIUMS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIXTH –THE BEGINNING OF THE XXTH CENTURY

The current relevance of the research. Comprehensive study of the historical and cultural heritage of Ukraine, an objective assessment of historical realities, the identification of progressive ideas, comprehension and awareness of the achievements of previous generations on physical education is one of the starting conditions for reforming the modern system of physical education in educational institutions. The aim is to study the peculiarities of organization and administration of physical education in Slobozhanshchyna gymnasiums in the second half of the XIXth–early XXth centuries. Methods: analysis of literary sources and documents, comparative-historical and structural system methods. Results. Analysis of archival documents of the investigated period made it possible to assert that physical education, as a subject of study, began to be introduced in the Slobozhanshchyna gymnasiums in 1860’s. The gymnastics lesson gained the status of a compulsory school subject in 1890’s, it was conditioned by a significant decrease in the level of health of high school students and active development of sports movement in Slobozhanschyna. In addition to the gymnastics lesson, the following forms of physical education were introduced in the gymnasium: active breaks (recreation), military patriotic games, walks and excursions, classes in sports clubs, athletic holidays and competitions. The official authority regulated the introduction of physical education in the gymnasium and controlled this process. Responsibility for its content, due to the lack of the same curricula, was entrusted to the administration of educational institutions. The questions of financial, personnel, material and technical support of the gymnasium were solved independently. Conclusions. A characteristic feature of the physical education of the students of the Slobozhanschyna gymnasiums of the investigated period is the difference in time of the introduction of various forms of physical education into the educational process of gymnasiums because of the lack of necessary conditions in many of them.

Objects in the cultural imaginary of geopolitics: from Patriot Games to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Following the aesthetic turn in International Relations Theory that includes growing interest in how pop culture both reflects and supports international politics, this article argues that mainstream film acts a medium for ‘programming’ the national security apparatus. Through an exegetical analysis of the ‘Jack Ryan’ franchise, the article argues that such feature films provided an important means of (re)conceptualizing what security meant in practice following the Cold War. Subtle variations in the characters’ behavior, as well as how the relationship between them and the technological-material network which realizes their agency, show how security transitions from the outcome of a reflexive process to the result of a technological process in the post-9/11 Ryan reboot.

Patriot games: the regulation of online gambling in the European Union

ABSTRACTThe recent economic crisis has brought into focus how even open and highly interdependent economies in the European Union try to govern their economies according to territorially defined interests. The aim of this article is to examine an area, online gambling, with the technological and legal conditions that challenge approaches that favour economic patriotism. The article compares two cases, the United Kingdom and Italy, that represent two different models of economic governance to argue that they are similar in which interests they seek to protect and at which level.

The Work of a ‘Young Nationalist’?: Tom Murphy's The Patriot Game and the Commemoration of Easter 1916

In 1965 Tom Murphy was commissioned by BBC Television to write a play, The Patriot Game, to be broadcast in the following year on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. However, it was finally not made as the estimated cost of the production exceeded the allocated budget. The play remained unseen, until twenty-five years later Murphy revised the work for a stage production on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Rising in 1991. This essay analyzes the two versions of The Patriot Game within the context of very different moments of commemoration; the first at a time of national redefinition when the Irish state used the event as part of its modernization agenda, and the second when the Troubles in Northern Ireland problematized any public commemoration of armed struggle in the pursuit of political aims. It examines how Murphy's 1991 version of his play went against the tendency of contemporary writers whose attitude to the Rising was one of rejection or derision and, in particular, compares the production of The Patriot Game with the Garry Hynes's production of The Plough and the Stars which was on the Abbey's main stage while Murphy's play occupied the smaller space of the Peacock.

Особенности составления и организации квест – игр патриотической тематики (на примере квест - игры «Мы помним, мы гордимся», посвящённой 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне)

The article discusses the features of patriotic quest games by the example of cognitive game "We remember, we are proud", which have been organized by Center for children and youth tourism and excursions. At the beginning of the article the basic principles of the development and implementation quests in a museum are determined, the urgency such activities is highlighted. Further the author, following own experience, introduces readers to the development of game-investigation "We remember, we are proud", represents the progress of work and the final results. The article describes course of the game, the event format, the main playgrounds. It is planned to combine the two interactive forms: a solution of game tasks by examining the museum exhibition and collective cognitive activity. The case of considered game has been successfully presented and has been declared the winner in the regional competition of teaching materials for patriotic education "Proud of Russia!" (Yaroslavl). This working out the game has been successfully presented at the intramural competitive selection of innovative projects of young scientists on priority directions of science and technology "Innovation potential of youth" (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushinsky), as well as on the webinar of the State educational institution of Yaroslavl region "Center for children and youth tourism and excursions" - "Excursion routes to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory ("Guided educational programs dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic war")." Currently, the authorial case of the game-investigation is the working material of the Center for children and youth tourism and excursions and is successfully put into practice in the course of the game for students of secondary school. Theme of the article is relevant in the context of the public policy in patriotic education and preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War.

Patriot games? Determinants of responses to Chinese and foreign sponsors of the Beijing Olympics

The paper assesses the generalizability of Speed and Thompson's (2000) model of the determinants of sponsorship response to an important and growing market for sponsorship (China). It extends the model by considering differences in effects for foreign and domestically owned sponsors and the role of patriotism. The findings confirm that personal liking for the sponsored event, status of the event, attitude to the sponsor, perceived sincerity of the sponsor and perceived fit between the sponsor and the event are significant factors underpinning positive responses. In contrast to Speed and Thompson (2000), ubiquity of the sponsor is not significant for China. Whether the sponsor is of domestic or foreign origin is identified as an important moderator of sponsorship effects but there is no consistent evidence that foreign sponsors suffer from relatively poorer outcomes in emerging markets compared to domestically owned rivals.

The politicisation of the Beijing Olympics

The politicisation of the Beijing Olympics

The patriot's game

With two BNP MEP's elected in June and a Cameron victory in 2010 likely to accelerate the pressures in Scotland and Wales towards separation Mark Perryman examines the potential for a progressive English patriotism. Citing the work of Chantal Mouffe, Eric Hobsbawm and Stuart Hall he examines the appeal of a right-wing populism in England, the racialisation of nationalism that the BNP represents and how a version of the SNP and Plaid Cymru models of civic nationalism could be developed in England. Mark concludesthat a left which actively disavows the progressive potential of patriotism will be incapable of shaping a democratic and inclusive English settlement.

Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876–1926

Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876–1926

From the President: PATRIOT Games and Patriot Acts

In 1976, library scholar Robert Hauptman visited a bunch of libraries and asked reference librarians for information on how to make a bomb. Like Claude Rains in Casablanca, he was shocked—shocked! — that librarians would give him relatively unquestioning (if sometimes ineffective) assistance. In the resulting article, he argued that librarians have a responsibility to the safety of the community that outweighs our traditional commitment to protect the individual’s right to seek information — in short, that librarians should narc on patrons whose information needs seem dangerous.

Cyber terrorism: a clear and present danger, the sum of all fears, breaking point or patriot games?

Over the past two decades there has developed a voluminous literature on the problem of cyber terrorism. The themes developed by those writing on cyber terrorism appear to spring from the titles of Tom Clancy’s fiction, such as Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears and Breaking Point, or somewhat more cynically, Patriot Games. This essay examines both the gap between the presumed threat and the known cyber terror behaviors and the continuing literature which suggests an attack is imminent. It suggests that at least part of the explanation lies both in the continuing failure to distinguish between what Denning (Activism, hacktivism, and cyber terrorism: The internet as a tool for influencing foreign policy, 1999) referred to as hactivism and cyberterrorism and also the failure to distinguish between the use of digital means for organizational purposes (information, communication, command and control) and the use of digital communications to actually commit acts of terror.

Playing out the Rising: Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and Tom Murphy's The Patriot Game

Cet article analyse deux pieces qui mettent en scene le soulevement de Pâques 1916 a Dublin — The Plough and the Stars (1926), de Sean O’Casey, et The Patriot Game (1991) de Tom Murphy —, et montre comment les deux pieces utilisent des techniques meta-theâtrales pour interroger la maniere dont s’ecrit l’histoire du Soulevement. Tandis que The Plough and the Stars tente de deconstruire le mythe ebauche par les rebelles eux-memes, et consolide par l’historiographie nationaliste au cours des dix annees suivantes, The Patriot Game remet en perspective le scepticisme d’O’Casey et reaffirme l’importance du Soulevement pour la memoire collective irlandaise.