Post-Olympism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Olympism write by John Bale. This book was released on 2020-06-07. Post-Olympism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports. However, throughout the twentieth century, Olympic rhetoric was often confronted by a different reality. The Games have regularly been faced by crises that have threatened the spirit of Olympism and even the Games themselves. Given the many changes that have occurred in the Olympic Games during the past century it seems reasonable to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger issue in mind, the authors of Post-Olympism? ask probing questions about the following: the infamous 1936 Olympics the effect of new technologies on the Games the future impact of the 2008 Beijing Games on China and of China on the Olympics the local and regional impact of the Sydney green Olympics the Games and globalization Disneyfication racism drug abuse The book provides a useful overview of the ongoing significance of the Olympics and will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Games.
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended write by J A Mangan. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan dimensions. In the course of its epic history, the Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies, from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics represent an essential component of modern global history. The Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport
Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport write by Joseph Maguire. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body, globalisation and civilisational analysis. Reflecting on this body of work and the use of process sociology, Maguire captures the research dynamic of ‘walking the line' between involvement and detachment, theory and observation, and engagement and critique. The book is structured around four broad sections: Theory, Sport and Society; The Meaning of Sport, Body and Society; Case Studies in Sport and Process Sociology; Globalisation, Sport and Civilisational Analysis. Providing an introduction to, and key examples of, a process sociology approach to the study of sport, the body, civilising processes and globalisation, this book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sport studies / sports science degrees, sociology, cultural studies and to those studying migration, globalisation and cross cultural civilisation relations. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Sport in Society.
A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One
A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One write by Jean Williams. This book was released on 2014-04-24. A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.
Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics
Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics write by H. Lenskyj. This book was released on 2014-02-07. Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the International Olympic Committee wield power in similar ways, as evident in undemocratic governance, fraudulent voting processes, hypocrisy and absence of accountability.
