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 | : Alfred Eric Senn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781492575467 |
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Author | : Christopher R. Hill |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780719037924 |
Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1784780731 |
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.
Author | : Richard W. Pound |
Publisher | : Wiley |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-05-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780470834541 |
A candid look at how the Olympic rings got so tarnished-from a top IOC insider Bribery, illicit drugs, tainted judges, dirty politics . . . the Olympics have come a long way from ancient Greece. Far from the vaunted symbol of athletic excellence, the Olympic games have become awash in scandal (from doping and judging scandals, questionable selection practices for future sites) that have given it a tawdry luster only cynics and news junkies would relish. Now, Dick Pound, a former Olympic medalist and twenty-five year member of the IOC gives an insider's account of the politics within the IOC as well as an unsensationalistic look at what went on behind the headlines. As controversial as the games themselves have become, Inside the Olympics is a fascinating, no-holds-barred look at just how the Olympics and their legacy have foundered.
Author | : John Peter Sugden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415578337 |
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.
Author | : Alan Bairner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2010-03-09 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1136963022 |
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.
Author | : David B Kanin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
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 | : Helen Lenskyj |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-07-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780791447550 |
Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Author | : Alan Tomlinson |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0791482480 |
National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on the Olympic Games and the men's football (soccer) World Cup, the contributors examine the political, cultural, economic, and ideological influences that frame these events. Selected case studies include the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin, the 1934 World Cup Finals in Italy, the unique case of the 1972 Munich Games, the transformative 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and the 2002 Asian World Cup Finals, among others. The case studies show how the Olympics and the World Cup Finals provide a basis for the articulation of entrenched and dominant political ideologies, encourage persisting senses of national identity, and act as barometers for the changing ideological climate of the modern and increasingly globalized contemporary world. Through rigorous scholarly analyses, the book's contributors help to illuminate the increasing significance of large-scale sporting events on the international stage.