ABSTRACT

This article examines the transition of the Trinidad and Tobago State from a minimalist role in the development of sport to a more interventionist one in the period 1947–2019 based on documentary sources, while also examining some of the social, political and economic factors that facilitated or shaped this process. To this end, it is structured around two broad periods, a colonial period marked by British rule and a post-colonial period after independence was granted in 1962, which is itself sub divided into 4 periods. In examining this transition, particular attention is paid to the early arms-length, almost apolitical approach of the state to sport, the role of foreign business companies, civil society and the gradual change towards sport following political independence in relation to its (re)positioning in the State apparatus, policy formulation, implementation, funding and facility development. The consequences of greater State involvement in sport in relation to the (over)dependence of the non-profit sector on state funding, the priority given to elite sport and the management of billion dollar sport facilities are also interrogated, together with the ongoing issues of the under-involvement of the local private sector in sport, the lack of sport research and the governance of some of the various National Sport Organizations (NSOs).

摘要

本文根据文献资料研究了特立尼达和多巴哥州在 1947 年至 2019 年期间从体育发展中的极简主义角色转变为更具干预性的角色，同时还研究了一些促进体育发展的社会、政治和经济因素。或塑造了这个过程。为此，它围绕两个广泛的时期构建，即以英国统治为标志的殖民时期和 1962 年获得独立后的后殖民时期，该时期本身又细分为 4 个时期。在研究这一转变时，特别关注国家对体育的早期公平、几乎非政治性的态度、外国商业公司的作用、民间社会以及政治独立后逐渐向体育运动的（重新）在国家机器中的定位，政策制定、实施、筹资和设施开发。国家更多地参与体育运动的后果与非营利部门对国家资助的（过度）依赖、对精英体育的优先考虑和数十亿美元的体育设施的管理有关，以及持续存在的问题当地私营部门对体育的参与不足、缺乏体育研究以及一些国家体育组织 (NSO) 的治理。