Olympism: The Global Vision - From Nationalism to Internationalism

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung This collection is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympic movement in the modern context has been, and continues to be, socially relevant and politically important. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Boria (University of Central Lancashire Majumdar
• Assisted by: Sandra Collins (Editor), Boria Majumdar (Editor), Majumdar Boria (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2009
• EAN: 9780415486248
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48624-8
• No. of pages: 20
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sports and Active outdoor recreation