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Author:   John Sugden ,  Alan Tomlinson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415578332

ISBN 10:   0415578337
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   02 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Lording it: London and the getting of the Games 2. Pierre de Coubertin and the Modern Olympic Ideals: Myth, Evolution, or Betrayal? 3. The Promise of Olympism 4. The Olympics as Sovereign Subject Maker 5. The Technicolor Olympics? Race, Representation and the 2012 London Games 6. Youth Sport and London’s 2012 Olympic Legacy 7. Doping and the Olympics: Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities (Watching the Athletes) 8. The Olympic Documentary and the ‘Spirit of Olympism’ 9. Torchlight Temptations: Hosting the Olympics and the Global Gaze 10. Taste, Ambiguity and the Cultural Olympiad 11. Sex Watch: Surveying Women’s Sexed and Gendered Bodies at the Olympics 12. Children of a Lesser God: Paralympics and High-Performance Sport 13. The Olympic Movement, Action Sports, and the Search for Generation Y 14. Team GB, the Bards of Britishness and a Disunited kingdom 15. The View from the Pressbox: Rose-Tinted Spectacle? 16. Watched by the Games: Surveillance and Security at the Olympics 17. Afterword: ‘No Other Anything …’: The Olympic Games Yesterday and Today

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John Sugden is Professor of the Sociology of Sport at the University of Brighton, UK, and has researched and written widely around topics concerned with the politics and sociology of sport. He is Academic Leader of the Sport and Leisure Cultures subject group and Director of Football for Peace, based in Israel. Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. He is Deputy Chair of the University Research Degrees Committee and Head of Research in the Chelsea School, teaching predominantly in the social history of sport, the sociology of leisure and cultural studies.

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