Post-Olympism?: Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century

by John Bale (Editor), Mette Krogh Christensen (Editor)

the authors of Post-Olympism? ask probing questions about the following: the infamous 1936 Olympics the effect of new technologies on the Games the future impact of the 2008 Beijing Games on China and of China on the Olympics the local and regional impact of the Sydney green Olympics the Games and globalization Disneyfication racism drug abuse The book provides a useful ov erview of the ongoing significance of the Olympics and will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Games.

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First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Kristen Byers · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little too much theory to be directly relevant to my research but still a couple interesting papers in this one.

[Malcolm · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a marvellous set of conference papers many of which engage critically with the notion that the olympic games are associated with a philosophy (Olympism). Whereas a couple fail to develop a critical edge, Bale and Christensen have been able to assemble a group of scholars from across the disciplines – history, politics, sociology, philosophy and elsewhere – who rather than setting out to debunk, critique and extend the issues surrounding performance sport in exciting and provocative ways.