The Palgrave handbook of Olympic studies

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. HELEN LENSKYJ Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she had worked since 1986. A leading academic researcher on the Olympics, she has authored three books on the Games, the most recent of which is 'Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda'. Her other critiques of the Olympic industry are 'The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts of Sydney 2000' and 'Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism'. STEPHEN WAGG Professor in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has written widely on the history and sociology of sport and his publications include 'Key Concepts in Sports Studies, Cricket and Globalization, ''East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War 'and 'Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport'. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction; 'H.Lenskyj '&' S.Wagg - 'PART I: THE MODERN OLYMPICS: PRE-HISTORY - The Ancient Olympics and the Modern: Mirror and Mirage; 'M.Golden - 'Pierre de Coubertin: Man andMyth; 'D.Chatziefstathiou - 'PART II: THE OLYMPICS: CASE STUDIES - The 1904 Olympic Games: Triumph or Nadir?; 'M.Dyreson '&' D.Lunt' - The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936; 'D.Large - 'The Early Cold War Olympics, 1952-60: Political, Economic and Human Rights Dimensions; 'B.Keyes - 'The Winter Olympics: Geography isDestiny?; 'H.Lenskyj - 'Olympic Tales from the East: Tokyo, 1964, Seoul, 1988and Beijing, 2008; 'J.Horne '&' W.Manzenreiter - 'The XXI Olympiad: Canada's Claim or Montreal's Gain? Political and Social Tensions Surrounding the 1976 Montreal Olympics; 'T.Teixeira - 'A Gold Medal for the Market: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan Era, and the Politics of Neoliberalism; 'R.Gruneau '&' R.Neubauer - 'A Source of Crisis? Assessing Athens 2004; 'J.Karamichas - 'Bringing the Mountains into the City: Legacy of the Winter Olympics, Turin 2006; 'E.Dansero '&' A.Mela - 'The Social and Spatial Impacts of Olympic Image Construction: The Case of Beijing 2008; 'A.Broudehoux - 'Living Lula's Passion? The Politics of Rio 2016; 'B.Clift '&' D.Andrews - 'PART III: THE OLYMPICS: DISCIPLINES - The Making b and Unmaking? b of the Olympic Corporate Class; 'A.Tomlinson' - The Economics and Marketing of the Olympic Games from Bid Phase toAftermath; 'C.Shaw - 'The Rings and the Box: Television Spectacle and the Olympics; 'G.Whannel - 'The Olympic Movement's New Media Revolution: Monetization, Open Media and Intellectual Property; 'A.Miah '&' J.Jones - 'Myth, Heritage and the Olympic Enterprise; 'T.Rider '&' K.Wamsley - 'The Olympics, the Law and the Contradictions of Olympism; 'S.Greenfield, M.James '&' G.Osborn ' - PARTIV: THE OLYMPICS: POLITICAL ISSUES - Tilting at Windmills: Olympic Politics and the Spectre of Amateurism; 'S.Wagg' - Celebrate Humanity: Cultural Citizenship and the Global Branding of 'Multiculturalism'; 'M.Giardina, J.Metz '&' K.Bunds - 'The Paralympic Movement: Empowerment or Disempowerment for People withDisabilities?; 'O.Schantz '&' K.Gilbert - 'The Olympics and the Environment; 'J.Karamichas - 'Securing the Olympic Games: Exemplifications of Global Governance; 'P.Boyle - 'The Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances in the Olympic Games: History and Critical Issues; 'I.Ritchie - 'The Olympic Industry and Women: An Alternative Perspective; 'H.Lenskyj - 'Disciplining Sex: 'Gender Verification' Politics and Women's Sport; 'J.Schultz - 'The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name: Corruption and the Olympics; 'A.Jennings - ''There Will Be No Law That Will Come Against Us': A Foremost Episode of Indigenous Resistance and Activism Within Olympic History; 'C.O'Bonsawin - 'The Olympics and Indigenous Peoples: Australia; 'T.Bruce '&' E.Wensing - 'The Olympics of 2012: East London's Renewal and Legacy; 'G.Poynter - 'The

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24653-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 09/03/2012
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