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The Politics of the Olympic Games

Author : Richard Espy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520043954

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Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games

Author : Alfred Eric Senn
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781492575467

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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.

Power Games

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1784780731

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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.

The Politics of the Olympics

Author : Alan Bairner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136963022

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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.

Politics of the Olympics

Author : Sasha Soldatow
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1980
Category : International relations
ISBN :

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Olympic Politics

Author : Christopher R. Hill
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780719037924

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Inside the Olympics

Author : Richard W. Pound
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780470834541

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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.

Watching the Olympics

Author : John Peter Sugden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415578337

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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.

The Politics of the Olympic Games

Author : Richard Espy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520037779

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Centers on such issues as German and Chinese recognition, South African and Rhodesian participation, sport federations, and business interests to probe the relationship between the Olympics and international politics during the era following World War II