Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation / edited by John Sugd en and Alan Tomlinson.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 258 p. : illISBN:

9780203852200
0203852206
9781136974861

Subject(s):

Olympics -- Sociological aspects

LOC classification:

GV 721.5 .W38 2012

Contents:

1. Lording it : London and the getting of the Games / Alan Tomlinson -- 2. The ideals of the founding father : mythologised, evolved or betrayed? / Lincoln Allison -- 3. The promise of Olympism / Graham McFee -- 4. The Olympics as sovereign subject maker / Thomas F. Carter -- 5. The technicolor Olympics? : race, representation and the 2012 London Games / Daniel Burdsey -- 6. Youth sport and London's 2012 Olympic legacy / Marc Keech -- 7. Doping and the Olympics : rights, responsibilities and accountabilities (watching the athletes) / Barrie Houlihan -- 8. The Olympic documentary and the 'spirit of Olympism' / Ian McDonald -- 9. Torchlight temptations : hosting the Olympics and the global gaze / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- 10. Taste, ambiguity and the cultural Olympiad / Shane Collins and Catherine Palmer -- 11. Sex watch : surveying women's sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics / Jayne Caudwell -- 12. Children of a lesser god : paralympics and high-performance sport / P. David Howe -- 13. The Olympic movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton -- 14. Team GB, the bards of Britishness and a disunited kingdom / Mark Perryman -- 15. The view from the pressbox : rose-tinted spectacle? / Rob Steen -- 16. Watched by the Games : surveillance and security at the Olympics / John Sugden -- 17. Afterword : 'no other anything ...' : the Olympic Games yesterday and today / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Open Shelf	Albukhary International University LEVEL 2	GV 721.5 .W38 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1100019834

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1. Lording it : London and the getting of the Games / Alan Tomlinson --
2. The ideals of the founding father : mythologised, evolved or betrayed? / Lincoln Allison --
3. The promise of Olympism / Graham McFee --
4. The Olympics as sovereign subject maker / Thomas F. Carter --
5. The technicolor Olympics? : race, representation and the 2012 London Games / Daniel Burdsey --
6. Youth sport and London's 2012 Olympic legacy / Marc Keech --
7. Doping and the Olympics : rights, responsibilities and accountabilities (watching the athletes) / Barrie Houlihan --
8. The Olympic documentary and the 'spirit of Olympism' / Ian McDonald --
9. Torchlight temptations : hosting the Olympics and the global gaze / David Rowe and Jim McKay --
10. Taste, ambiguity and the cultural Olympiad / Shane Collins and Catherine Palmer --
11. Sex watch : surveying women's sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics / Jayne Caudwell --
12. Children of a lesser god : paralympics and high-performance sport / P. David Howe --
13. The Olympic movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton --
14. Team GB, the bards of Britishness and a disunited kingdom / Mark Perryman --
15. The view from the pressbox : rose-tinted spectacle? / Rob Steen --
16. Watched by the Games : surveillance and security at the Olympics / John Sugden --
17. Afterword : 'no other anything ...' : the Olympic Games yesterday and today / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson.

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