ABSTRACT

Until recently, investment into sport heritage in the United Kingdom has been sporadic, variable and inconsistent. This is particularly the case for sports conventionally not considered significant to popular national interest. In the UK, this classification extends to basketball. The situation is changing, and development of the nation's sport heritage is progressing. However, support for sport heritage cannot be guaranteed and continued efforts need to be individually and collectively made to advance its causes. Taking the development of the National Basketball Heritage Centre (NBHC) located at the University of Worcester in the United Kingdom as its focus, this paper interrogates how sport heritage practices and progress might align with the nexus of shifts in higher education (in which the NBHC resides), critical museology and digital redirections. This intersectional paradigm may yield exciting opportunities for sport heritage thought, production and action. Namely, by generating spaces of analysis, reforming modalities of production, and inspiring critical advocacy in representational praxis. Focusing on community identity and youth development, we envision the NBHC as a more than archival tome/ tomb, but as a site of transformative social inquiry that (virtually) connects the physical practices of the past with politics of the present and beyond.

摘要

直到最近，英国对体育遗产的投资一直是零星的、多变的和不一致的。对于传统上被认为对公众国家利益不重要的体育运动来说尤其如此。在英国，这种分类延伸到篮球。形势在变化，民族体育遗产建设在不断进步。然而，对体育遗产的支持并不能得到保证，需要单独和集体继续努力以推进其事业。本文以位于英国伍斯特大学的国家篮球遗产中心（NBHC）的发展为重点，探讨了体育遗产实践和进步如何与高等教育转变的联系相结合（其中 NBHC居住），批判博物馆学和数字重定向。这种交叉范式可能会为体育遗产思想、生产和行动带来令人兴奋的机会。也就是说，通过产生分析空间、改革生产方式以及激发代表性实践中的批判性倡导。专注于社区认同和青年发展，我们设想 NBHC 不仅仅是一个档案馆/坟墓，而是一个变革性社会调查的场所，（实际上）将过去的实际实践与现在及以后的政治联系起来。