Political Economy Of The Tokyo Olympics

Author : Miyo Aramata
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000897869

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Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics by Miyo Aramata Pdf

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were mired in scandal from the beginning of the bidding process all the way through to the end of the games. This was further exacerbated by the emergency postponement to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with many public opinion polls supporting further postponement or cancelation in 2021. The contributors to this volume look at the Tokyo 2020 Games in the context of other modern games and the struggle to use the games as an economic stimulus. They reveal the reality of the Olympic development in Tokyo based on evidence and concrete policy analysis. This is a valuable resource for scholars both of contemporary Japan and of the Olympics and other mega-events.

Author : Paul Close,David Askew,Xu Xin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134248889

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The Beijing Olympiad by Paul Close,David Askew,Xu Xin Pdf

The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant political, economic and cultural groups at and between the local, regional and global levels of modern social life? The Beijing Olympiad examines these among other questions, providing a range of original insights of interest to an array of scholars, researchers and students from Sports Studies to Sociology, Politics, Economics, International Relations and Legal Studies.

Author : Barbara Holthus,Isaac Gagné,Wolfram Manzenreiter,Franz Waldenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003033903

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Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics by Barbara Holthus,Isaac Gagné,Wolfram Manzenreiter,Franz Waldenberger Pdf

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities, and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135938338

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Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games by Jules Boykoff Pdf

The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a massive planned economy designed to shield the rich from risk while providing them with a spectacle to treasure. Placing political economy at the center of the analysis, and drawing on interdisciplinary research in sociology, politics, geography, history, and economics, Boykoff develops an innovative theory of "celebration capitalism", the manipulation of state actors as partners that drives us towards public–private partnerships in which the public pays and the private profits. He argues that the Athens Games in 2004 marked the full emergence of celebration capitalism, with London 2012 representing its quintessential expression, characterized by a state of exception, unfettered commercialism, repression of dissent, questionable sustainability claims, and the complicity of the mainstream media. Controversial, challenging, and forthright, this book opens up a fascinating new avenue for understanding the contemporary Olympics in the context of global capitalist society. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympic Games, the relationship between sport and society, or global politics and culture.

Author : Matthew Burbank,Gregory Andranovich,Charles H. Heying
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555879918

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Olympic Dreams by Matthew Burbank,Gregory Andranovich,Charles H. Heying Pdf

What drives cities to pursue large-scale events like the Olympic games? Investigating local politics in three U.S. cities-Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City-as they vied for the role of Olympic host, this book provides a narrative of the evolving political economy of modern megaevents.

Author : Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351470445

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Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination by Rodanthi Tzanelli Pdf

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and cultural rhythms, when the eyes of the world are turned on it? Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination examines ephemeral and solidified atmospheres in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the handover ceremony to Tokyo for the 2020 Games. Indeed, highlighting the various social and cultural implications upon these Olympic Games hosts, Tzanelli argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic "imagineers", mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Thus, it is explored as to how Rio and Tokyo’s "imagineers" problematize notions of creativity, cosmopolitan togetherness and belonging. Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination will appeal to postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professionals interested in fields such as: Globalization Studies, Mobility Theory, Cultural Sociology, International Political Economy, Conference and Event Management, Tourism Studies and Migration Studies.

Author : Takeo Hoshi,Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108843959

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The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms by Takeo Hoshi,Phillip Y. Lipscy Pdf

Explores the politics and economics of the Abe government and evaluates major policies, such as Abenomics policy reforms.

Author : John Horne,Garry Whannel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Olympics
ISBN : 0367232251

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Understanding the Olympics by John Horne,Garry Whannel Pdf

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games. This thoroughly revised and updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the face of growing global anti-Olympic activism, the changing geo-political context within which the Olympics take place, and the Olympic histories of the next three cities to host the Games - Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and Los Angeles (2028) - as well as the legacy of the London (2012) Olympics. For the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of 'other Games' associated with the IOC - the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. It also features a full Olympic history timeline, many new photographs, refreshed suggestions for further reading, and revised illustrations. The most up-to-date and authoritative textbook available on the Olympic Games, Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773632787

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NOlympians by Jules Boykoff Pdf

This book investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it's clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic juggernaut that arrives with displacement, expanded policing, and anti-democratic backroom deals.

Author : Zuzana Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0131918478

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Economic Issues of Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympics 2005 by Zuzana Fromm Pdf

The purpose of this publication is to illustrate a number of key economic concepts commonly found in introductory courses by applying them to issues pertaining to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The publication is divided in two parts. The first section contains articles which explore various microeconomic concepts, such as opportunity cost, the law of demand, and taxation, as they relate to the 2010 Games. The second section contains articles which explore a few macroeconomic issues, including the impact of the Games on provincial output und inflation, as well as the provincial budget.

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2129 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Olympics
ISBN : OCLC:298178634

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Olympic Legacies by J. A. Mangan Pdf

Author : J. Nauright,K. Schimmel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230524057

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The Political Economy of Sport by J. Nauright,K. Schimmel Pdf

Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries. This collection of essays from a range of international contributors analyzes all aspects of the political economy of this industry, including media sports production, urban growth politics and capital accumulation and the economic effects of Olympism.

Author : Jean-Francois Bourg,Jean-Jacques Gouguet
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849807838

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The Political Economy of Professional Sport by Jean-Francois Bourg,Jean-Jacques Gouguet Pdf

This timely book offers a critical interpretation of the traditional social and economic accounts of sport. It provides an incisive analysis of professional sport and defines alternative foundations to the present model. The authors demonstrate that professional sport is an extremely complex phenomenon encompassing many unique factors depending on its global reach, financing and organization. In particular they address three significant issues: • an analysis of the relationship between sport and economic development in order to explain the place of professional sport in modern societies • a study of the main difficulties facing the organization of professional sports in terms of financing, collective bargaining and the consequences of revenue sharing for competitive balance • an exploration of alternatives to current governance structures which would involve a return to professional ethics. This insightful and topical book is essential for academics and students of sport management, researchers of the economics of sport, managers of clubs and federations involved in professional sports, as well as civil servants and journalists.

Author : Tony Fang,John Hassler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800717930

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Globalization, Political Economy, Business and Society in Pandemic Times by Tony Fang,John Hassler Pdf

Globalization, Political Economy, Business and Society in Pandemic Times contributes to the growing literature on COVID-19 through a multidisciplinary approach by helping build a holistic understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics, economies, business, and society in a globalized world.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773632773

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NOlympians by Jules Boykoff Pdf

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it’s clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic juggernaut that arrives with displacement, expanded policing, and anti-democratic backroom deals. Jules Boykoff – a former professional soccer player who represented the US Olympic soccer team – zooms in on Los Angeles, where the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the NOlympics LA campaign ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. Boykoff shows how DSA-LA’s anti-Olympics activism fits with the resurgence of socialism in the US and beyond. Boykoff’s research, based on more than 100 interviews with anti-Olympics activists, personal experiences at protests in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, academic research, mass- and alternative-media coverage, and Olympic archives, is the backbone for this story of activists fighting against the odds and embracing the transformative politics of democratic socialism.