Olympics and Paralympics

The first book-length study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay, The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movemen..

The first book-length study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay, The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movemen..

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. He develops an innovative theory of ‘celebration capitalism’, which is t..

The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as a site for erecting memorials to American patriotism and developing mythologies of American exceptionalism...

The 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. _x000D_..

By merging studies of architecture (Olympic venues), graphic design (Olympic emblems), product design (mascots), fashion, stage and event design, Jilly Traganou examines the relationship between design and national identity through a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted enterprises that are in..

This book examines the controversies and challenges that Olympism faces, 100 years after the establishment of the IOC’s (International Olympic Committee) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland._x005F_x000D_ It was originally published as a special edition of Sport in Society...

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective...

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an officially-licensed account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery..

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation..

Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic ..

Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic ..