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Informationen zum Autor Barbara J. Keys is Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne. She is author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s and Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s. Klappentext Barbara J. Keys is Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne. She is author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s and Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s.Does international sport make the world a better place? This volume critically examines the claims that global sports events promote peace, mutual understanding, antiracism, and democracy, and exposes repeated shortcomings in human rights protection, from the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games to Brazil's 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Ideals of International Sport —Barbara Jean Keys PART I. The Core Ideals Chapter 1. Friendship and Mutual Understanding: Sport, Rhetoric, and Regional Relations in Southeast Asia —Simon Creak Chapter 2. Antidiscrimination: Racism and the Case of South Africa —Robert Skinner Chapter 3. Democracy and Democratization: The Ambiguous Legacy —Joon Seok Hong Chapter 4. Peace: The United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, and the Renovation of the Olympic Truce —Roland Burke PART II. The Rise of Human Rights Chapter 5. Reframing Human Rights: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Sport —Barbara Jean Keys Chapter 6. The Moscow 1980 and Sochi 2014 Olympic Games: Dissent and Repression —Dmitry Dubrovskiy Chapter 7. Hosting the Olympic Games in Developed Countries: Debating the Human Rights Ideals of Sport Jules Boykoff Chapter 8. The View from China: Two Olympic Bids, One Olympic Games, and China's Changing Rights Consciousness —Susan Brownell Chapter 9. Competing for Rights?: Human Rights and Recent Sport Mega-Events in Brazil —João Roriz and Renata Nagamine Conclusion. The Future of Idealism in Sport —Barbara Jean Keys and Roland Burke List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
