1st Edition
Olympism: The Global Vision From Nationalism to Internationalism
194 Pages
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Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political; it is politics. It is also culture and art.
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- Preface: The IOC Olympic Studies Centre Philippe Blanchard
- The Lausanne Olympic Studies Centre Research Grants Programme John J. MacAloon
- Prologue: The Story of the Homecoming: IOC weds IJHS Boria Majumdar
- The Latin American ‘Olympic Explosion’ of the 1920s: Causes and Consequences Cesar Torres
- Conflicts of 1930s Japanese Olympic Diplomacy in Universalizing the Olympic Movement Sandra Collins
- ‘A Debt Was Paid Off in Tears’: Science, IOC Politics and the Debate about High Altitude in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Alison M. Wrynn
- ‘If You Want to Cry, Cry on the Green Mats of Kôdôkan’: Expressions of Japanese Cultural and National Identity in the Movement to Include Judo into the Olympic Games Andreas Niehaus
- Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement: The Correspondence of Reginald S. Alexander and the International Olympic Committee, 1961-86 Maureen Margaret Smith
- When North-South Fight, the Nation is out of Sight: The Politics of Olympic Sport in Postcolonial India Boria Majumdar
- A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts
- Epilogue Sandra Collins
Biography
Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is research fellow at Latrobe University in Melbourne.
Sandra Collins is a visiting scholar at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
