1st Edition
Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
1. Introduction: the Olympic Flame Relay. Local knowledges of a global ritual form 2. This flame, our eyes: Greek/American/IOC relations, 1984 – 2002, an ethnographic memoir 3. Olympic Flame Relay operations under a ‘world’s best practices’ regime: a conversation with Steven McCarthy 4. ‘My programme became very strict’: a conversation with Athanassios Kritsinelis 5. The 2004 International Relay: a Greek around the world with the Olympic Flame 6. Struggling to celebrate: management of the 2004 Olympic Flame Relay segment in Greece 7. American media, intercultural stories and the 2004 Olympic flame ceremonies 8. Hybridity and subversion: the Olympic flame in India
Biography
John J. MacAloon is Professor and Academic Associate Dean in the Social Sciences Graduate Division and Professor in The College at The University of Chicago. His anthropological and historical studies of the modern Olympic Movement and Olympic Games have earned a global reputation. He was an executive member of the International Olympic Committee 2000 Reform Commission and has advised many Olympic bid and organizing committees and National Olympic Committees.
