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This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels. It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as a site for erecting memorials to American patriotism and developing mythologies of American exceptionalism.
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The study discusses the role of the Balkan Games in the interwar years in promoting goodwill and cooperation between antagonist states in a Balkan scene of long established suspicion, traditional hostility and territorial claims.
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This book examines the controversies and challenges that Olympism faces, 100 years after the establishment of the IOC’s (International Olympic Committee) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was originally published as a special edition of Sport in Society.
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The Paralympic Games Explained is still the only complete introduction to the Paralympic phenomenon. Now in a fully revised second edition, it includes new... Læs mere
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This book provides an overview of how the Olympic experience has been shaped by media entities, across various platforms and formats. Built... Læs mere
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Globally, billions of fans feverishly focus on the summer and winter Olympics. In theory, international fraternalism is boosted by these "friendly competitions," but often... Læs mere
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This story starts with Great Britain women's hockey team's dismal failure to qualify for the 2004 Olympics and culminates in... Læs mere