Post-Olympism? : questioning sport in the Twenty-first century /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bale, John, Christensen, Mette Krogh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, Eng. ; New York : Berg, [2004]
Series:Global sport cultures.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.