Olympics in Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

From the Games of the New Emerging Forces to the Rio Olympics
Redaktion: Zhouxiang, Lu; Hong, Fan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and explains how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations. The chapters published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351181464
• Artikelnr.: 58015860

Autorenporträt

Lu Zhouxiang is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His main research interests are Chinese history, nationalism and China's sport policy and practice. Fan Hong is a Professor in Asian Studies at Bangor University, Wales. Her main research interests are in the areas of sociology, politics, cross-cultural studies, sports studies and Asian studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Independent Olympic Athletes and the Legitimacy of the
International Olympic Committee in Resolving International Conflicts 2. The
Legacy of the Games of the New Emerging Forces and Indonesia's Relationship
with the International Olympic Committee 3. 'The Sole Anti-Democratic
Federation in the Entire Olympic Movement': Early International Association
of Athletics Federations Development Initiatives Between Commercialization
and Democratization, 1974-1987 4. Sport in Singapore (1945-1948): From
Rehabilitation to Olympic Status 5. Olympics, Media and Politics: The First
Olympic Ideas in Brazilian Society During the Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries 6. The Development of Social Media and its Impact on
the Intercultural Exchange of the Olympic Movement, 2004-2012 7. A Game for
the Global North: The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang and South
Korean Cultural Politics 8. The Development of the Olympic Narrative in
Chinese Elite Sport Discourse from Its First Successful Olympic Bid to the
Post-Beijing Games Era 9. Xi Jin-Ping's World Cup Dreams: From a Major
Sports Country to a World Sports Power