The Politics of the Olympic Games
Author | : Richard Espy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520043954 |
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Author | : Richard Espy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520043954 |
Author | : Annette R. Hofmann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134819935 |
Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century throughout the twentieth century, offering new insights into previously little researched areas of scholarship relating to physical activity and sport. Such works take a new look at old issues with continued relevance to current works. The use of sports as a political tool are prominent in studies persistent to national and international relations; while other investigations cover the sociocultural discourse of the past relative to bodies and physical performances that continue to resonate in modern times. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author | : Games of the New Emerging Forces |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Games of the New Emerging Forces Djakarta |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David B Kanin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-08-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429724314 |
The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
Author | : Simon Creak |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824875125 |
This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Creak argues that sport and related physical practices—including physical education, gymnastics, and military training—have shaped a national consciousness by locating it in everyday experience. These practices are popular, participatory, performative, and, above all, physical in character and embody ideas and ideologies in a symbolic and experiential way. Embodied Nation takes readers on a brisk ride through more than a century of Lao history, from a nineteenth-century game of tikhi—an indigenous game resembling field hockey—to the country's unprecedented outpouring of nationalist sentiment when hosting the 2009 Southeast Asian Games. En route, we witness a Lao-Vietnamese soccer brawl in 1936, the fascist-inspired body ethic of the early 1940s, the novel modes of military masculinity that blossomed with national independence, the spectacular state theatrics of power represented by Olympic-inspired sports festivals, and the high hopes and frequent failures of socialist sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Of central concern in Creak's narrative are the twin motifs of gender and civilization. Despite increasing female participation since the early twentieth century, he demonstrates the major role that sport and physical culture have played in forming hegemonic masculinities in Laos. Even with limited national sporting success—Laos has never won an Olympic medal—the healthy, toned, and muscular form has come to symbolize material development and prosperity. Embodied Nation outlines the complex ways in which these motifs, through sport and physical culture, articulate with state power. Combining cultural and intellectual history with historical thick description, Creak draws on a creative array of Lao and French sources from previously unexplored archives, newspapers, and magazines, and from ethnographic writing, war photography, and cartoons. More than an "imagined community" or "geobody," he shows that Laos was also a "body at work," making substantive theoretical contributions not only to Southeast Asian studies and history, but to the study of the physical culture, nationalism, masculinity, and modernity in all modern societies.
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : World politics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fan Hong |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2005-11-18 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 113576042X |
Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.
Author | : Katrin Bromber |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415884381 |
This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies - to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the global diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures.
Author | : Kathryn Batchelor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135185805X |
The recent rapid growth in China’s involvement in Africa is being promoted by both Chinese and African leaders as being conducted in a spirit of cooperation, friendship and equality. In the media and informally, however, a different, less harmonious picture emerges. This book explores how China and Africa really regard each other, how official images are manufactured, and how informal images are nevertheless shaped and put forward. The book covers a wide range of areas where China-Africa exchange exists, including diplomacy, technological cooperation, sport, culture and arts exchange. The book also discusses the historical development of the relationship and how it is likely to develop going forward.
Author | : Gregg A. Brazinsky |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469631717 |
Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South." Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.