Book Review
Olympic Industry Resistance
Book Review | Olympics Studies
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Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 29/07/2008 - 01:09.
Sports Mega-Events, Social scientific analyses of a global phenomenon
Edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter, 2006, Blackwell, ISBN 10: 1 4051 5290 7
A recent collection of ten academic papers, plus an introduction, which gives useful updates about the ideologies which inform the Olympic Industry, the impacts of a range of recent sports mega-events, and current theoretical debates within academic research.
Submitted by gmadmin on Wed, 31/01/2007 - 17:27.
The Beijing Olympiad, China's Human Rights Record and Western Orientalism
The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event, Paul Close, David Askew, Xu Xin.
Routledge, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0415357012
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Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 23/02/2008 - 11:28.
Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-Events on Local Politics
Book Review | Mega Events | Olympics Studies
Matthew J. Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, Charles H. Heying,
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001, ISBN: 978-1-55587-991-4, pb
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Thu, 21/02/2008 - 11:11.
The Economics of Staging the Olympics, A Comparison of the Games 1972-2008
Book Review | Olympics Studies
Holger Preuss (Professor of Sport Economics and Sportmanagement, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany and member of Research Team Olympia), Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN pbk 1 8 4376 893 3.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 28/10/2006 - 21:04.
The Best Olympics Ever?: Social impacts of Sydney 2000
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, 2002, SUNY, ISBN pbk 0 7914 5473 8.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 28/10/2006 - 20:59.
Mega-Events and Modernity, Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture
Maurice Roche, 2000, Routledge, ISBN pbk 0 415 15711 0.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 28/10/2006 - 17:26.
Inside the Olympic Industry, Power, Politics and Activism
Book Review | Olympics Studies
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, 2000, State University of New York Press, ISBN pbk 0 7914 4756 1.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 28/10/2006 - 17:19.
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