The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Ancient Olympics and the Modern: Mirror and Mirage....Pages 15-25
Pierre de Coubertin: Man and Myth....Pages 26-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The 1904 Olympic Games: Triumph or Nadir?....Pages 43-59
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936....Pages 60-71
The Early Cold War Olympics, 1952–1960: Political, Economic and Human Rights Dimensions....Pages 72-87
The Winter Olympics: Geography Is Destiny?....Pages 88-102
Olympic Tales from the East: Tokyo 1964, Seoul 1988 and Beijing 2008....Pages 103-119
The XXI Olympiad: Canada’s Claim or Montreal’s Gain?: Political and Social Tensions Surrounding the 1976 Montreal Olympics....Pages 120-133
A Gold Medal for the Market: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan Era, and the Politics of Neoliberalism....Pages 134-162
A Source of Crisis?: Assessing Athens 2004....Pages 163-177
Bringing the Mountains into the City: Legacy of the Winter Olympics, Turin 2006....Pages 178-194
The Social and Spatial Impacts of Olympic Image Construction: The Case of Beijing 2008....Pages 195-209
Living Lula’s Passion?: The Politics of Rio 2016....Pages 210-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Making – and Unmaking? – of the Olympic Corporate Class....Pages 233-247
The Economics and Marketing of the Olympic Games from Bid Phase to Aftermath....Pages 248-260
The Rings and the Box: Television Spectacle and the Olympics....Pages 261-273
The Olympic Movement’s New Media Revolution: Monetisation, Open Media and Intellectual Property....Pages 274-288
Myth, Heritage and the Olympic Enterprise....Pages 289-303
The Olympics, the Law and the Contradictions of Olympism....Pages 304-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Tilting at Windmills? Olympic Politics and the Spectre of Amateurism....Pages 321-336
Celebrate Humanity: Cultural Citizenship and the Global Branding of ‘Multiculturalism’....Pages 337-357
The Paralympic Movement: Empowerment or Disempowerment for People with Disabilities?....Pages 358-380
The Olympics and the Environment....Pages 381-393
Securing the Olympic Games: Exemplifications of Global Governance....Pages 394-409
The Use of Performance-enhancing Substances in the Olympic Games: A Critical History....Pages 410-429
The Olympic Industry and Women: An Alternative Perspective....Pages 430-442
Disciplining Sex: ‘Gender Verification’ Policies and Women’s Sport....Pages 443-460
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Corruption and the Olympics....Pages 461-473
‘There Will Be No Law that Will Come Against Us’: An Important Episode of Indigenous Resistance and Activism in Olympic History....Pages 474-486
The Olympics and Indigenous Peoples: Australia....Pages 487-504
The Olympics: East London’s Renewal and Legacy....Pages 505-519
The Olympic Games and Housing....Pages 520-532
Anti-Olympic Campaigns....Pages 533-548
Front Matter....Pages 549-549
The Olympics: Why We Should Value Them....Pages 551-569
The Case against the Olympic Games: The Buck Stops with the IOC....Pages 570-579
Back Matter....Pages 580-592