The Politics of the Olympic Games
Author : Richard Espy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520043954
Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games
Author : Alfred Eric Senn
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781492575467
Book Description
The e-book format allows readers to bookmark, highlight, and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the HK site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when your order is received.
Olympic Politics
Author : Christopher R. Hill
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780719037924
Book Description
Inside the Olympic Industry
Author : Helen Lenskyj
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2000-07-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791447550
Book Description
Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Power Games
Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1784780731
Book Description
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.
Watching the Olympics
Author : John Peter Sugden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415578337
Book Description
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.
Inside the Olympics
Author : Richard W. Pound
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780470834541
Book Description
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.
Olympic Dreams
Author : Matthew Burbank
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781555879914
Book Description
What drives cities to pursue large-scale events like the Olympic games? Investigating local politics in three U.S. cities-Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City-as they vied for the role of Olympic host, this book provides a narrative of the evolving political economy of modern megaevents.
A Political History Of The Olympic Games
Author : David B Kanin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429724314
Book Description
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
Doping in Elite Sport
Author : Wayne Wilson
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780736003292
Book Description
This book is an examination of the failure to control the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs in international sport. It will help you understand the universal issues involved in enforcing and controlling this ever-growing problem.
