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Encoding the Olympics

Luo Qing,Giuseppe Richeri
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Author : Luo Qing,Giuseppe Richeri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135747510

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Encoding the Olympics by Luo Qing,Giuseppe Richeri Pdf

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC, this pioneering comparative study – the largest in Olympic Games research –provides a ground-breaking, panoramic, cross-cultural perspective on media responses to the leading sports event of the modern world. The representative team that undertook the study includes media commentators and political analysts, sport and media journalists, Sinologists and observers of the Asian Pacific Rim, academics in Olympic Studies and media and communication studies, scholars of the cultural and sociology studies of sport and festival and events managers. Encoding the Olympics provides a unique, encyclopaedic study that will serve as a versatile resource at several levels – as a textbook or source reference for academic institutions, media public relations agencies that facilitate the work of inter-cultural exchange organisations, and international communication departments of multinational enterprises and international NGOs. This volume analyses global media responses to a mega-sport event on a scale never before attempted. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Watching the Olympics

John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson
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Author : John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136974854

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Watching the Olympics by John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson Pdf

Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book 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. The book argues 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. Few studies have offered such close scrutiny of the inner workings of Olympism’s political and economic network, and, therefore, this book is indispensible reading for any student or researcher with an interest in the Olympics, sport's multiple impacts, or sporting mega-events.

The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising

J. A. Mangan,Sandra Collins,Gwang Ok
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Author : J. A. Mangan,Sandra Collins,Gwang Ok
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135714192

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The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising by J. A. Mangan,Sandra Collins,Gwang Ok Pdf

Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time this was recorded. The Olympic Games had transformational political, economic and cultural effects for the host cities and countries. This also is a neglected topic. The Triple Asian Olympics: Asia Rising explores the realities of global transformation, regional ascendancy and metaphorical modernity of the East Asian Olympics and, by extension, East Asia. As the axis of global geo-political and economic power shifts to the East, analyzing the significance of the Olympic Games in East Asia becomes significant to an understanding the shifting nature of the nations of East Asia. The Triple Asian Games are harbingers of dramatic geopolitical change. This is the first study to record, confront and examine this contemporary phenomenon. For this reason, this unique collection promises to attract a wide readership. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

John J. Macaloon
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Author : John J. Macaloon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000159394

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Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement by John J. Macaloon Pdf

The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for the first time on years of intensive ethnographic research and organizational intervention, MacAloon literally follows the Olympic flame through twenty years of intercultural encounter, conflict, and negotiation. Focusing on the frequently harmonious, sometimes perilous encounters among Greek flame relay officials, cultural agents, and discourses, foreign Olympic Games organizing committees, and such transnational actors as the IOC and its corporate sponsors since 1984, a context is created for understanding the significance for the Olympic movement and for globalization studies of the 2004 Athens flame relay, the first to travel the entire world. Through intensive interviews and co-participations with leading Greek and American actors and the contributions of young Greek researchers who worked backstage on the relay, Bearing Light demonstrates how culturally parochial the managerial regime of "world’s best practices" often turns out to be and yet how inescapable it has become for those who wish to communicate across cultural and political boundaries. This dilemma, the contributors argue, constitutes the practical form in which the struggle to preserve a sense of "Olympism" and "the Olympic Movement" against the demands and prerogatives of today’s Olympic sports industry is being chiefly fought out. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society

Coaching for Performance: Realising the Olympic Dream

Sarah Lee,Martin Dixon,Tony Ghaye
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Author : Sarah Lee,Martin Dixon,Tony Ghaye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134922345

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Coaching for Performance: Realising the Olympic Dream by Sarah Lee,Martin Dixon,Tony Ghaye Pdf

This book celebrates two important aspects of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (1) For those involved in any aspect of Olympism, and particularly coaches and athletes, London 2012 was about realising dreams, achieving success and participating in competitive sport at the highest level. This book sets out some of these dreams and the part coaches play in this. (2) The book also looks at the notion of ‘coaching-for-performance’ and does this from an international and multi-sport perspective. From interviews with Olympic coaches, the experiences of those working in the field of high performance and from applied sport researchers, the book uses the metaphor of the ‘coach-as-alchemist’ in order to capture the dynamics of coach-athlete relationships and performance. Sports such as diving, swimming, gymnastics, skiing are included as well as individual and team sports. The book is set within the context of elite sport, high performance and coaching. Its contents illuminate two important kinds of reflective practice: (a) Reflection-ON-action (b) Reflection-FOR-action. The style of presentation includes narratives, reflective conversations, ethnographic work, interview analysis and video-clips available on-line. This book was published as a special issue of Reflective Practice.

The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking

Ramón Spaaij,Cindy Burleson
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Author : Ramón Spaaij,Cindy Burleson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134904914

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The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking by Ramón Spaaij,Cindy Burleson Pdf

Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, policymakers, peacekeepers, athletes, development workers, presidents of nations and others combine forces in an "integrated" approach towards peace. This approach is located not only within the broader, historically evolved Olympic Movement but also in relation to a newly emerged social movement which promotes development and peace through sport. This book critically examines the ways in which this development is being played out at global, national and local levels, particularly in relation to the Olympic Movement and initiatives such as the biennial Olympic Truce Resolution. The volume constitutes a unique scholarly attempt to provide an in-depth comparative analysis of the sport of peacemaking in the context of the Olympic Movement. Through international comparison and empirically grounded case studies, the book provides an important new departure in the study of the social impact of the Olympic Movement and related peacemaking efforts. It discusses these issues from a range of academic disciplines, including history, sociology, political science, economics, geography, philosophy and international relations. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

London, Europe and the Olympic Games

Thierry Terret
London Europe and the Olympic Games Book PDF

Author : Thierry Terret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317745792

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London, Europe and the Olympic Games by Thierry Terret Pdf

London hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2012, a mega-event where the political, economic and social expectations could hardly be compared with the previous London Games of 1908 and 1948. In addition, the Olympic Games went back to Europe in 2012 after a long period where (apart from Athens in 2004) they were held by cities in other continents. In London, the world watched the Games. Continental Europe, however, generated a particular attitude based on the special relations it had developed historically with England. At the crossing point of history, cultural studies and geopolitics, this book provides new insights on the significance of the Olympic Games. It considers that the Games are the right window to look at both the past and the current relations between England and its closest continental neighbours. It will be ideal for students and academics working in sport sciences, cultural history, political science and European studies; amateur and professional sports historians; Olympic followers and experts in Olympic studies. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Olympic Aspirations

J. A. Mangan,Mark Dyreson
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Author : J. A. Mangan,Mark Dyreson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135712792

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Olympic Aspirations by J. A. Mangan,Mark Dyreson Pdf

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One section of the Forum was devoted to the impact of the Olympic Movement on China and on China’s image in the world. The tone at times was too self-congratulatory for some present. The critical discussion that continued into late 2010 inspired this book. Olympic Aspirations is a companion volume to the well-received Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended and draws on expertise from academics in all parts of the world. Both volumes have a similar purpose: to record Olympic ideals achieved but more importantly, to stimulate reflection on those as yet unachieved. Both are constructive in approach, positive in tone and optimistic in attitude. Olympic Aspirations offers original and insightful arguments that address the actions the Olympic Movement has taken to improve the Games. It argues that these actions are as yet incomplete. In concert with Olympic Legacies, it presents two sides of the same coin minted to advance the purity of the Olympic 'coinage'. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games

Matthew P. Llewellyn
Rule Britannia Nationalism Identity and the Modern Olympic Games Book PDF

Author : Matthew P. Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317979760

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Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games by Matthew P. Llewellyn Pdf

On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.

Olympic Reform Ten Years Later

Heather Dichter,Bruce Kidd
Olympic Reform Ten Years Later Book PDF

Author : Heather Dichter,Bruce Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135706005

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Olympic Reform Ten Years Later by Heather Dichter,Bruce Kidd Pdf

In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms were initiated in response to the deep crises of legitimacy it faced because of the Salt Lake City doping scandal and ongoing accusations that it turned a blind eye to doping. This book assesses the implementation and effectiveness of those reforms ten years after. It draws upon the perspectives of Olympic scholars, Olympic athletes, and IOC members, including those who were directly involved in the reform process, and makes a number of recommendations about how the process of Olympic reform could be maintained and strengthened. As such, it provides an insightful and telling report card on the modern Olympic Movement in the first decade of the 21st century, and the presidency of Jacques Rogge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Olympic Perspectives

Stephan Wassong,Richard Baka,Janice Forsyth
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Author : Stephan Wassong,Richard Baka,Janice Forsyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351856768

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Olympic Perspectives by Stephan Wassong,Richard Baka,Janice Forsyth Pdf

Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. The Olympic Movement can be addressed from multidisciplinary perspectives, including management, sociology, education, philosophy and history. This comprehensive collection examines the multifaceted profile of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement and presents new insights drawn from a variety of research projects. Historical and political dimensions of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement are addressed, along with educational, ethical, commercial and sociological perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson
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Author : Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317502463

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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games by Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson Pdf

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context

Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang
Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context Book PDF

Author : Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317587675

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Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context by Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang Pdf

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport facility management and sport social development in the two host countries - China and Britain. It identifies the role of national and local governments, universities and educational institutions in the delivery of elite sport in different cultural and social settings. Aspects of the elite sports system are also analysed, such as elite athletes' training and education, athletes' rights and welfare both during and after an athlete’s career. Finally, the book considers the legacy of the Olympic Games in the areas of sport participation, public diplomacy, education and cultural communication in Europe and China. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Sports Diplomacy

Michal Marcin Kobierecki
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Author : Michal Marcin Kobierecki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793602213

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Sports Diplomacy by Michal Marcin Kobierecki Pdf

This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomacy as a sub-category of public diplomacy and empirical research of selected examples of the use of sport within public diplomacy. The empirical part of the book refers to three approaches to sports diplomacy and concerns the utilization of sport by states in order to shape relations with other states, the role of sport in building the international image of a state and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations. In reference to the first two approaches, the book uses comparative case study was in order to make observations and generalizations concerning sports diplomacy. Apart from that, the book includes a detailed study of the diplomatic subjectivity of the International Olympic Committee.

Female Olympians

Linda K. Fuller
Female Olympians Book PDF

Author : Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137582812

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Female Olympians by Linda K. Fuller Pdf

This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes.