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Post-Olympism? : questioning sport in the twenty-first century
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- ISBN: 1859737145 (cloth)
- ISBN: 1859737196 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xv, 276 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, c2004.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : post-olympism? / John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen -- 1. Post-olympism? Questioning olympic historiography / Douglas Booth -- 2. 'What's the difference between propaganda for tourism or for a political regime?' Was the 1936 Olympics the first postmodern spectacle? / Arnd Kruger -- 3. China and olympism / Susan Brownell -- 4. The global, the popular and the inter-popular : olympic sport between market, state and civil society / Henning Eichberg -- 5. Cosmopolitan olympism, humanism and the spectacle of 'race' / Ben Carrington -- 6. Post-olympism : olympic legacies, sport spaces and the practices of everyday life / Douglas Brown -- 7. The future of a multi-sport mega-event : is there a place for the olympic games in a 'post-olympic' world? / Richard Cashman -- 8. Making the world safe for global capital : the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- 9. The disneyfication of the olympics? Theme parks and freak-shows of the body / Alan Tomlinson -- 10. Essence of post-olympism : a prolegomena of study / Synthia Sydnor -- 11. Sportive nationalism and globalization / John Hoberman -- 12. The vulnerability thesis and its consequences : a critique of specialization in olympic sport / Sigmund Loland -- 13. Doping and the olympic games from an aesthetic perspective / Verner Moller -- 14. Post-olympism and the aestheticization of sport / Soren Damkjaer -- 15. Laying olympism to rest / Kevin B. Wamsley. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Interurban Library | GV 721.6 P67 2004 (Text) | 26040002752687 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
