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Author : Helen Lenskyj
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2000-07-14
Category : 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 : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2000-07-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0791491579
In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. A highly accessible book about a complex subject that touches the hearts of sports fans everywhere, Inside the Olympic Industry is a must-read, behind-the-scenes look at the politics surrounding the choice of Sydney, Australia as host city for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
Author : H. Lenskyj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 113729115X
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0791478114
A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.
Author : Helen Lenskyj
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mass media and sports
ISBN : 9781435658844
Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in the post-9/11 and postbribery scandal era. Examining events and activism in host cities, as well as in several locations that bid unsuccessfully on the Olympics, Lenskyj shows how basic rights and freedoms, particularly of the press and of assembly, are compromised. Lenskyj investigates the pro-Olympic bias in media treatment of bids and preparations, the fallen hero phenomenon that includes doping and female athletes who pose nude in calendars, and takes issue with Olympic education curricular materials for schoolchildren. Also discussed are the problems of housing and homelessness created when the Olympics become a catalyst for urban redevelopment projects.
Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0791488101
Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.
Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1838677755
Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise.
Author : Belinda Wheaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1351029525
Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond. In an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, four new action sports, surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and BMX freestyle were included in the Tokyo Olympic program. Drawing upon interviews with Olympic insiders, as well as leaders, athletes, and participants in these action sports communities, the book details the impacts on the action sports industry and cultures, and offers national comparisons to show the uneven effects resulting from Olympic inclusion. It reveals the intricate workings of power and politics in contemporary sports organisations, and maps key trends in this changing sporting landscape. Action Sports and the Olympic Games is a fascinating read for anybody studying the Olympics, the sociology of sport, action sports, or sport policy.
Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1838677739
Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise.
Author : John J. Macaloon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1317968905
In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and interprets the transformation of the ritual across a 25-year period, from Los Angeles 1984 through the IOC’s 2009 announcement that, in the aftermath of the politically contentious Beijing performance, there will be no more global relays. This volume offers a rare case study of continuity and change in a leading transnational and trans-cultural ritual form. Through data publicly revealed for the first time, the reader is carried fully backstage and into the conflicts and negotiations among Olympic organizing committees, the Greek Olympic movement, national governments, and transnational actors like the IOC, commercial sponsors, and operations management firms. Readers will come to know the leading flame relay authorities and practitioners, gaining a deeper understanding of the Olympic managerial revolution with its characteristic ‘world’s best practice’ language. Analysis of the transnational flow of Olympic operations management offers important corrections to much existing globalization theory by demonstrating both how powerful and how culturally and politically parochial world’s best practices can turn out to be. The dialectic between the cultural performance genres of ritual and spectacle provides a further intellectual architecture for these studies posing the question of whether the Olympic Movement will be able to survive the successes of the Olympic Sports Industry. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.