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Author(s): John Bale, Mette Krogh Christensen
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ISBN 13: 9781859737149
Author: John Bale, Mette Krogh Christensen

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 reasonable to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger issue in mind, the authors of Post-Olympism? ask probing questions about the following: the infamous 1936 Olympics the effect of new technologies on the Games the future impact of the 2008 Beijing Games on China and of China on the Olympics the local and regional impact of the Sydney green Olympics the Games and globalization Disneyfication racism drug abuse The book provides a useful overview of the ongoing significance of the Olympics and will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Games.

Post Olympism Questioning Sport in the Twenty First Century Global Sport Cultures 1st Table of contents:

1 Post-olympism? Questioning Olympic Historiography
Models of Olympic History
Explanatory Paradigms
Conclusion

2 ‘What’s the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime?’ Was the 1936 Olympics the first Postmodern Spectacle?
Perspective
Introduction
Olympic Games under a Dictatorship
Olympic Education and the Peace Mission of the IOC
The Historical Perspective
General Sherrill and the Change of Policy
Hans Fritsch
Official Propaganda
The Olympic Torch Relay
Coubertin’s Political Economy
Brohm versus Bernett
Conclusion

3 China and Olympism
What Comes after the -Isms? Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, and Post-Olympism (but not Post-Nationalism)
The Power of the Host City
He Zhenliang
Will Olympism Change China?
Will China Change Olympism?

4 The Global, the Popular and the Inter-Popular: Olympic Sport between Market, State and Civil Society
The Boomerang
Contradictions of Movement: The Case of Jumping
Contradictions of Identity: Saying ‘We’ in Sports
Production, Integration and Encounter by Movement
National Identity is not One
How to Analyse Olympism?
Historical Shifts between Civic, Public and Commercial Logics
Scenarios of Olympism …
. . . and Post-Olympism
Identity on the Agenda
Whose Cathy – and which People?

5 Cosmopolitan Olympism, Humanism and the Spectacle of ‘Race’
Introduction
Humanism and the Spectacle of ‘Race’
Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism
Re-imagining the Race: Eric the Eel and the Non-white White Athlete
The Politics of Cosmopolitan Olympism
Conclusion

6 Post-Olympism: Olympic Legacies, Sport Spaces and the Practices of Everyday Life
The Space
The Sport
The Skaters
Olympians Amongst Us’
Conclusion
Postscript One
Postscript Two

7 The Future of a Multi-Sport Mega-Event: Is there a Place for the Olympic Games in a ‘Post-Olympic’ World?
The Contemporary Global Sports System
Increased Competition
Alternative Visions of Sport
The Pragmatic and Loose Definition of the Olympic Programme
The Changing Geography of World Sport
Copying Olympic Ceremonies
Review of the Olympic Programme, August 2002
Conclusion

8 Making the World Safe for Global Capital: The Sydney 2000 Olympics and Beyond
Olympic Resistance, Past and Present
Sydney 2000 Protests
More Resistance: Vancouver and Whistler
Resistance in Salt Lake City
Conclusion

9 The Disneyfication of the Olympics? Theme Parks and Freak-Shows of the Body
Introduction: Survival and Transformation
Disneyfication: Process and Outcome
Scenes from Sydney
A Disneylimpics? Challenging Stale Olympic Ideals
Conclusion

10 Essence of Post-Olympism: A Prolegomena of Study
Proem
Cultural Adaptation
Classic Olympism
Transcendence
Aesthetics
Performativity
Acceleration
Coming Community/ Whatever

11 Sportive Nationalism and Globalization
Early Globalization and Olympic Sport
Globalization as International Competition
Sportive Nationalism and International Competition
Denationalizing Global Competition

12 The Vulnerability Thesis and its Consequences: A Critique of Specialization in Olympic Sport
Introduction
Athletic Performance
Specialization
The Vulnerability Thesis
The Underlying Premise: Sport as Moral Practice
Policy Implications
Conclusion

13 Doping and the Olympic Games from an Aesthetic Perspective

14 Post-Olympism and the Aestheticization of Sport
What is Olympism?
The Meaning of Sport
Modern Critiques
The Historico-Sociological Critique
The Forms of Critique
Post-Olympism
Postmodern in Olympism
Deconstruction
The Ethics of Sport
A Model of Postmodern Sport
Sport and Art
Art
The Aesthetics of Sport
Aesthetics at the Olympic Games
The Philosophy of Olympism
Post-Olympism Reconsidered
Conclusion

15 Laying Olympism to Rest
Introduction
Olympism
Post-Olympism

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