Olympic industry resistance : challenging Olympic power and propaganda / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.
Olympic industry resistance : challenging Olympic power and propaganda / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.
Olympic industry resistance : challenging Olympic power and propaganda / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
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N796.48/378
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English
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viii, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction and background -- Olympic impacts and community resistance -- Rights and freedoms under threat -- Olympic impacts on bid and host cities -- Canadian Olympic wins and losses -- Olympic education -- Education through (Olympic) sport : making connections -- Olympic Education Inc. : coloniz...
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2008.
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"Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in the post-9/11 and postbribery scandal era. Examining events and activism in host cities, as well as in several locations that bid unsuccessfully on the Olympics, Lenskyj shows how basic rights and freedoms, particula...
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Olympic industry resistance : challenging Olympic power and propaganda / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.
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SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-173) and index.
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c2008.
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N796.48/378
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74VMbw6GNXzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbw6GNXzX
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ISBN
0791474801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791474798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791474792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791474808 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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796.48
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991000655259702626
