Olympic Games

A Critical Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Canada) Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson (University of Toronto

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Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, while Olympic mythology obscures their underlying function as a profit-making business. Unlike terms such as 'Olympic movement' and 'Olympic family', the concept of 'Olympic industry' focuses on sport as an economic and political enterprise, with its beneficiaries including sponsors, media rights holders, developers, and politicians. Negative impacts on host cities disproportionately threaten the lives and well-being of disadvantaged minorities. Citizens' Olympic resistance campaigns address a range of human rights abuses, while recent athlete activism also focuses on the doping problem and the sexual abuse of girls and women. Female athletes with 'differences of sexual development' face discriminatory gender policies that disqualify them from women's events. All of these issues are analysed through a feminist, anti-racist lens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-04-15
Mått129 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSocietyNow
Antal sidor264
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781838677763

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Chapter 1. Introduction and Background Chapter 2. Olympic ResistanceChapter 3. 'Sport and Politics Don't Mix'Chapter 4. Olympic Industry ImpactsChapter 5. Reform: 'To Restore Reputation'Chapter 6. Athletes, Politics, and ProtestChapter 7. 'Educating Youth Through Sport'Chapter 8. Athletes' Rights, Athletes' LivesChapter 9. Gender Policies: Challenges and ResponsesChapter 10. The Olympics: 'Not a Welfare Program but a Business Venture'

Lenskyj's contribution to the world of sports is an important, sharp and brave reminder that sport is political, that athletes are humans with rights not instruments for others to (mis)use for the benefit of themselves. We must never forget that as long as sports, in this case the Olympic industry, impacts the lives of its practitioners negatively, it needs to develop in line with the societal demands, regulations and laws and not to construct a sphere of its own.