The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 The Ancient Olympics and the Modern: Mirror and Mirage
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   Chapter 3 Pierre de Coubertin: Man and Myth
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   Chapter 4 The 1904 Olympic Games: Triumph or Nadir?
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   Chapter 5 The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
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   Chapter 6 The Early Cold War Olympics, 1952–1960: Political, Economic and Human Rights Dimensions
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   Chapter 7 The Winter Olympics: Geography Is Destiny?
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   Chapter 8 Olympic Tales from the East: Tokyo 1964, Seoul 1988 and Beijing 2008
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    Chapter 9 The XXI Olympiad: Canada’s Claim or Montreal’s Gain?: Political and Social Tensions Surrounding the 1976 Montreal Olympics
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    Chapter 10 A Gold Medal for the Market: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan Era, and the Politics of Neoliberalism
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    Chapter 11 A Source of Crisis?: Assessing Athens 2004
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    Chapter 12 Bringing the Mountains into the City: Legacy of the Winter Olympics, Turin 2006
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    Chapter 13 The Social and Spatial Impacts of Olympic Image Construction: The Case of Beijing 2008
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    Chapter 14 Living Lula’s Passion?: The Politics of Rio 2016
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    Chapter 15 The Making – and Unmaking? – of the Olympic Corporate Class
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    Chapter 16 The Economics and Marketing of the Olympic Games from Bid Phase to Aftermath
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    Chapter 17 The Rings and the Box: Television Spectacle and the Olympics
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    Chapter 18 The Olympic Movement’s New Media Revolution: Monetisation, Open Media and Intellectual Property
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    Chapter 19 Myth, Heritage and the Olympic Enterprise
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    Chapter 20 The Olympics, the Law and the Contradictions of Olympism
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    Chapter 21 Tilting at Windmills? Olympic Politics and the Spectre of Amateurism
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    Chapter 22 Celebrate Humanity: Cultural Citizenship and the Global Branding of ‘Multiculturalism’
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    Chapter 23 The Paralympic Movement: Empowerment or Disempowerment for People with Disabilities?
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    Chapter 24 The Olympics and the Environment
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    Chapter 25 Securing the Olympic Games: Exemplifications of Global Governance
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    Chapter 26 The Use of Performance-enhancing Substances in the Olympic Games: A Critical History
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    Chapter 27 The Olympic Industry and Women: An Alternative Perspective
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    Chapter 28 Disciplining Sex: ‘Gender Verification’ Policies and Women’s Sport
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    Chapter 29 The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Corruption and the Olympics
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    Chapter 30 ‘There Will Be No Law that Will Come Against Us’: An Important Episode of Indigenous Resistance and Activism in Olympic History
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    Chapter 31 The Olympics and Indigenous Peoples: Australia
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    Chapter 32 The Olympics: East London’s Renewal and Legacy
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    Chapter 33 The Olympic Games and Housing
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    Chapter 34 Anti-Olympic Campaigns
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    Chapter 35 The Olympics: Why We Should Value Them
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    Chapter 36 The Case against the Olympic Games: The Buck Stops with the IOC