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Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791478114 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 192
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A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791478114 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.
Author: Helen Lenskyj Publisher: ISBN: 9781435658844 Category : Mass media and sports Languages : en Pages : 182
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Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in the post-9/11 and postbribery scandal era. Examining events and activism in host cities, as well as in several locations that bid unsuccessfully on the Olympics, Lenskyj shows how basic rights and freedoms, particularly of the press and of assembly, are compromised. Lenskyj investigates the pro-Olympic bias in media treatment of bids and preparations, the fallen hero phenomenon that includes doping and female athletes who pose nude in calendars, and takes issue with Olympic education curricular materials for schoolchildren. Also discussed are the problems of housing and homelessness created when the Olympics become a catalyst for urban redevelopment projects.
Author: H. Lenskyj Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113729115X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 167
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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
Author: Helen Lenskyj Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791447550 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 248
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Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1838677755 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 183
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Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making business enterprise.
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791488101 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 273
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Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.
Author: Helen Lenskyj Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791447567 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 244
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Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.
Author: H. Lenskyj Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137399767 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 112
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This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the International Olympic Committee wield power in similar ways, as evident in undemocratic governance, fraudulent voting processes, hypocrisy and absence of accountability.
Author: Jacqueline Kennelly Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317337018 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 179
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Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these questions through an original ethnographic study of young people living in the shadow of Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. Setting qualitative research alongside critical analysis of policy documents, bidding reports and media accounts, this study explores the tension between promises made and lived reality. Its eight chapters offer a rich and complex account of marginalized young people’s experiences as they navigate the possibilities and contradictions of living in an Olympic host city. Their stories illustrate the limits to the promises made by Olympic bidding and organizing committees and raise important questions about the ethics of public funding for such mega‐events. This book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Olympics, sport and social exclusion, and sport and politics, as well as for those working in the fields of youth studies, social policy and urban studies.
Author: H. Lenskyj Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230367461 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 363
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A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Author: Helen Lenskyj
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Author: Helen Lenskyj
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Author: Helen Lenskyj
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Author: Jacqueline Kennelly
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