| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Series |
Sport in the Global Society |
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Sport in the Global Society
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| Contents |
Cover -- Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Other Titles in the Series -- Prologue: Guarantees of Global Goodwill: Post-Olympic Legacies - Too Many Limping White Elephants? -- 1. Olympic Environmental Concerns as a Legacy of the Winter Games -- 2. The Albertville Winter Olympics: Unexpected Legacies - Failed Expectations for Regional Economic Development -- 3. Maximizing Olympic Impacts by Building Up Legacies -- 4. The Seoul Olympics: Economic Miracle Meets the World -- 5. The Sydney Olympics: Striving for Legacies - Overcoming Short-Term Disappointments and Long-Term Deficiencies -- 6. The Athens Olympics: Optimistic Legacies - Post-Olympic Assets and the Struggle for their Realization -- 7. Los Angeles is the Olympic City: Legacies of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games -- 8. Beijing Olympics Legacies: Certain Intentions and Certain and Uncertain Outcomes -- 9. Olympic Legacies in the IOC's 'Celebrate Humanity' Campaign: Ancient or Modern? -- 10. 'Legacy' as Managerial/Magical Discourse in Contemporary Olympic Affairs -- 11. The Regeneration Games: Commodities, Gifts and the Economics of London 2012 -- 12. A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation -- Epilogue: Athletic Clashes of Civilizations or Bridges Over Cultural Divisions? The Olympic Games as Legacies and the Legacies of the Olympic Games -- Index. |
| Summary |
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan dimensions.In the course of its epic history, the Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies, from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics represent an essential component of modern global history. The Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. |
| Note |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| Local Note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. |
| Added Author |
Dyreson, Mark, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mangan, J A Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended London : Taylor and Francis,c2013 9780415550161 |
| ISBN |
9781317966623 (electronic bk.) |
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