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Power Politics and the Olympic Games
Author | : Alfred Erich Senn |
Publsiher | : Human Kinetics Publishers |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0880119586 |
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Traces the history of the modern Olympic games, and looks at boycotts, performance enhancing drugs, judging controversies, corporate sponsorships, and international rivalries
Power Games
Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781784780739 |
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
The Politics of the Olympic Games
Author | : Richard Espy |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520043952 |
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Inside the Olympic Industry
Author | : Helen Lenskyj |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-07-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0791447553 |
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Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Watching the Olympics
Author | : John Peter Sugden,Alan Tomlinson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415578332 |
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Explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic product across all of its levels. Contributors argue that the process of commercialization, directed by the IOC itself, has enabled audiences to interpret its traditional objects in non-reverential ways and to develop oppositional interpretations of Olympism. The Olympics have become multi-voiced and many themed, and the spectacle of the contemporary Games raises important questions about institutionalization, the doctrine of individualism, the advance of market capitalism, performance, consumption and the consolidation of global society. With particular focus on the London Games in 2012, the book casts a critical eye over the bidding process, Olympic finance, promises of legacy and development, and the consequences of hosting the Games for the civil rights and liberties of those living in their shadow. --From publisher description.
The Politics of the Olympics
Author | : Alan Bairner,Gyozo Molnar |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2010-03-09 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781136963025 |
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With the ever increasing global significance of the Olympic Games, it has never been more topical to address the political issues that surround, influence and emanate from this quadrennial sporting mega event. In terms of the most recent evidence of the politics of the Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games were riddled with political messages and content from the outset, and provided a global stage for protesters with numerous agendas. These included, to name but a few, proposed boycotts, potential terrorist attacks, the question of open media access, protests against China’s political practices and attempts to interrupt the ‘traditional’ torch rally. Essays in this collection focus on numerous political aspects of the Olympics from a variety of different perspectives, with a Glossary that contains a range of politically relevant entries relating to famous and infamous Olympic athletes, Olympic movement personnel and events and broader political issues and developments which have affected the modern Games. The purpose of this anthology is not to perpetuate hatred towards the concept and practices of Olympism or to regurgitate a ‘celebratory party line’. Instead, in addition to being informative, the book offers critical engagement with the Olympics by raising awareness of the movement’s political significance. Consequently, the essays in this anthology illustrate the strong but changing links between the modern Olympic Games and politics, in general, and address and discuss the key political aspects and issues with regard to the Games themselves, to national and international sport organisations and to specific countries’ attitudes to (ab)using the idea/ideal of the Olympics for their own political ends.
Olympic Politics
Author | : Christopher R. Hill |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0719037921 |
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The Olympics at the Millennium
Author | : Kay Schaffer,Sidonie Smith |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813528208 |
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Exploring the cultural politics of the Olympic Games, these essays investigate such topics as the emergence of women athletes as cultural commodities, the orchestrated spectacles of the opening and closing ceremonies, and the Gay Games. Unforgettable events and decisions are also discussed.