Post-Olympism? : questioning sport in the Twenty-first century /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, Eng. ; New York :
Berg,
[2004]
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| Series: | Global sport cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Post-Ølympism? : questioning Ølympic historiography / Douglas Booth
- "What's the difference between propaganda for tourism or for a political regime?" : was the 1936 Olympics the first postmodern spectacle? / Arnd Krüger
- China and Olympism / Susan Brownell
- The global, the popular, and the inter-popular : Olympic sport between market, state, and civil society / Henning Eichberg
- Cosmopolitan Olympism, humanism, and the spectacle of "race" / Ben Carrington
- Post-Olympism : Olympic legacies, sport spaces, and the practices of everyday life / Douglas Brown
- The future of a multi-sport mega-event : is there a place for the Olympic Games in a "Post-Olympic" world? / Richard Cashman
- Making the world safe for global capital : the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
- The Disneyfication of the Olympics? : theme parks and freak-shows of the body / Alan Tomlinson
- Essence of Post-Olympism : a prolegomena of study / Synthia Sydnor
- Sportive nationalism and globalization / John Hoberman
- The vulnerability thesis and its consequences : a critique of specialization in Olympic sport / Sigmund Loland
- Doping and the Olympic Games from an aesthetic perspective / Verner Møller
- Post-Olympism and the aestheticization of sport / Søren Damkjær
- Laying Olympism to rest / Kevin B. Wamsley.