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Olympic Industry Resistance
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Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2008-06-05
Olympic Industry Resistance written by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.
Olympic Industry Resistance
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Author : Helen Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Olympic Industry Resistance written by Helen Lenskyj and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Mass media and sports categories.
Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in the post-9/11 and postbribery scandal era. Examining events and activism in host cities, as well as in several locations that bid unsuccessfully on the Olympics, Lenskyj shows how basic rights and freedoms, particularly of the press and of assembly, are compromised. Lenskyj investigates the pro-Olympic bias in media treatment of bids and preparations, the fallen hero phenomenon that includes doping and female athletes who pose nude in calendars, and takes issue with Olympic education curricular materials for schoolchildren. Also discussed are the problems of housing and homelessness created when the Olympics become a catalyst for urban redevelopment projects.
Gender Politics And The Olympic Industry
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Author : H. Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Gender Politics And The Olympic Industry written by H. Lenskyj and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
The Olympic Games
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Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-15
The Olympic Games written by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise.
Inside The Olympic Industry
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Author : Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2000-07-14
Inside The Olympic Industry written by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. A highly accessible book about a complex subject that touches the hearts of sports fans everywhere, Inside the Olympic Industry is a must-read, behind-the-scenes look at the politics surrounding the choice of Sydney, Australia as host city for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
Gender Politics And The Olympic Industry
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Author : H. Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Gender Politics And The Olympic Industry written by H. Lenskyj and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
Activism And The Olympics
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Author : Jules Boykoff
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-27
Activism And The Olympics written by Jules Boykoff and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-27 with Social Science categories.
The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games are a useful window for better comprehending larger cultural, social, and historical processes, argues Jules Boykoff, an academic social scientist and a former Olympic athlete. In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Here we see how anti-Olympic activists deploy a range of approaches to challenge the Olympic machine, from direct action and the seizure of public space to humor-based and online tactics. Drawing on primary evidence from myriad personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympics organizers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints. Although modern Olympic authorities have strived—even through the Cold War era—to appear apolitical, Boykoff notes, the Games have always been the site of hotly contested political actions and competing interests. During the last thirty years, as the Olympics became an economic juggernaut, they also generated numerous reactions from groups that have sought to challenge the event’s triumphalism and pageantry. The 21st century has seen an increased level of activism across the world, from the Occupy Movement in the United States to the Arab Spring in the Middle East. What does this spike in dissent mean for Olympic activists as they prepare for future Games?
Olympic Exclusions
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Author : Jacqueline Kennelly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Olympic Exclusions written by Jacqueline Kennelly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these questions through an original ethnographic study of young people living in the shadow of Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. Setting qualitative research alongside critical analysis of policy documents, bidding reports and media accounts, this study explores the tension between promises made and lived reality. Its eight chapters offer a rich and complex account of marginalized young people’s experiences as they navigate the possibilities and contradictions of living in an Olympic host city. Their stories illustrate the limits to the promises made by Olympic bidding and organizing committees and raise important questions about the ethics of public funding for such mega‐events. This book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Olympics, sport and social exclusion, and sport and politics, as well as for those working in the fields of youth studies, social policy and urban studies.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Olympic Studies
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Author : H. Lenskyj
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-04-11
The Palgrave Handbook Of Olympic Studies written by H. Lenskyj and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.
Forty Years Of Sport And Social Change 1968 2008
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Author : Russell Field
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Forty Years Of Sport And Social Change 1968 2008 written by Russell Field and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated against social priorities in Mexico, the host of the 1968 Games. These events contributed significantly to the rejection of the idea that sports are apolitical, and stimulated the scholarly study of sport across the social sciences. Leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games, similar dynamics were played out across the globe, while a campaign was underway to boycott the ‘Genocide Olympics’. The volume, To Remember is to Resist, came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening Ceremony. The contributions to this volume capture the memories of activists who were "on the ground" using sport as a site for the struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of past and current human rights movements in sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.