Lenskyj The Best Olympics Ever?

Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8810-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Olympische Spiele, Paralympics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Websites
Introduction
1. The Mass Media: Olympic Industry Boosters and Critics
2. Police, Protest, and Olympic Legislation: "You've Got to Keep the Buggers under Control"
3. Black and White Australia: Reconciliation and Sydney 2000
4. "You Can't Share the Spirit if You Can't Pay the Rent": Housing and Homelessness in the Olympic City
5. Olympic Values, Impacts, and Issues: The Real Legacy
6. Productive Partnerships: Corporatized Universities Meet the Olympic Industry
7. "I'm Not Against the Olympics, But.": Local and Global Resistance
8. Bondi Beach Volleyball Stadium: The Battlers Lose the Beach
9. September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: Democracy at Risk
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, also published by SUNY Press; Women, Sport, and Physical Activity: Selected Research Themes; and Out of Bounds: Women, Sport, and Sexuality.