Olympic industry resistance : challenging Olympic power and propaganda / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.

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Lenskyj, Helen

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781435658844
1435658841

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Olympic industry resistance.DDC classification:

796.48 22

LOC classification:

GV721.6 .L42 2008eb

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Contents:

Introduction and background -- Olympic impacts and community resistance -- Rights and freedoms under threat -- Olympic impacts on bid and host cities -- Canadian Olympic wins and losses -- Olympic education -- Education through (Olympic) sport : making connections -- Olympic Education Inc. : colonizing children's minds? -- More fallen heroes? The nude calendar phenomenon -- Social responsibility : a fourth pillar of the "Olympic movement"?

Summary: "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 for 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."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-173) and index.

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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 for 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."--Jacket

English.

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