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Sporting Times
AvK. Woodward
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
446 kr
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Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport.
Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
AvH. Lenskyj
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
556 kr
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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character
From London 2012 to Rio 2016
AvR. Tzanelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
556 kr
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This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadóros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.