1st Edition
The Olympic Legacy Social Scientific Explorations
Foreword: Bottling the Olympic Spirit David Canter
1. Olympic legacies: recurrent rhetoric and harsh realities Alan Tomlinson
2. The Beijing Olympics: complicit consumerism and the re-invention of citizenship Steven Miles
3. The legacies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games: a bitter–sweet burden Roy Panagiotopoulou
4. Making the Olympics work: interpreting diversity and inclusivity in employment and skills development pre-London 2012 Lynn Minnaert
5. Training of Vancouver 2010 volunteers: a legacy opportunity? Angela M. Benson, Tracey J. Dickson, F. Anne Terwiel and Deborah A. Blackman
6. Landscapes of London 2012: ‘adiZones’ and the production of (corporate) Olympic space Francesca Weber-Newth
7. Legacies of 2012: putting women’s boxing into discourse Kath Woodward
8. London’s shadow legacies: security and activism at the 2012 Olympics Jules Boykoff and Pete Fussey
9. The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Brazil’s soft power Bárbara Schausteck de Almeida, Wanderley Marchi Júnior and Elizabeth Pike
Biography
Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies, and Head of Doctoral Training, at the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK. He has authored and/or edited over 35 books on sport, leisure and popular culture, and written more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.
