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" Post-Olympism? : "
edited by John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen.
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1020076
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b774446
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Post-Olympism? : : questioning sport in the Twenty-first century /\ edited by John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen.
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Oxford, Eng. ;New York :: Berg,, ©2004.
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Global sport cultures
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1 online resource (xv, 276 pages).
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1280339357
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: 1417598018
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1859737145
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1859737196
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9781859737149
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9781859737194
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
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| Contents
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Post-Ølympism? : questioning Ølympic historiography / Douglas Booth -- "What's the difference between propaganda for tourism or for a political regime?" : was the 1936 Olympics the first postmodern spectacle? / Arnd Krüger -- China and Olympism / Susan Brownell -- The global, the popular, and the inter-popular : Olympic sport between market, state, and civil society / Henning Eichberg -- Cosmopolitan Olympism, humanism, and the spectacle of "race" / Ben Carrington -- Post-Olympism : Olympic legacies, sport spaces, and the practices of everyday life / Douglas Brown -- The future of a multi-sport mega-event : is there a place for the Olympic Games in a "Post-Olympic" world? / Richard Cashman -- Making the world safe for global capital : the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- The Disneyfication of the Olympics? : theme parks and freak-shows of the body / Alan Tomlinson -- Essence of Post-Olympism : a prolegomena of study / Synthia Sydnor -- Sportive nationalism and globalization / John Hoberman -- The vulnerability thesis and its consequences : a critique of specialization in Olympic sport / Sigmund Loland -- Doping and the Olympic Games from an aesthetic perspective / Verner Møller -- Post-Olympism and the aestheticization of sport / Søren Damkjær -- Laying Olympism to rest / Kevin B. Wamsley.
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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 reasonabl e to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger i.
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Olympics-- Philosophy.
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Sports-- History.
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Sports-- Philosophy.
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Sportsmanship.
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Jeux olympiques-- Philosophie.
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Sportivité
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Sports-- Philosophie.
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Olympics-- Philosophy.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Sociology of Sports.
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Sports-- Philosophy.
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Sports.
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Sportsmanship.
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Crises.
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Internationalisatie.
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Invloed.
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Olympische Spelen.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/83/0905
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GV721.6.P67 2004eb
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76.14bcl
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| Added Entry
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Bale, John.
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Christensen, Mette Krogh.
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| Parallel Title
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Questioning sport in the twenty-first century
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