The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction; H.Lenskyj & S.Wagg PART THE MODERN PRE-HISTORY The Ancient Olympics and the Mirror and Mirage; M.Golden Pierre de Man and Myth; D.Chatziefstathiou PART THE CASE STUDIES The 1904 Olympic Triumph or Nadir?; M.Dyreson & D.Lunt The Nazi Berlin 1936; D.Large The Early Cold War Olympics, 1952-60: Political, Economic and Human Rights Dimensions; B.Keys The Winter Geography is Destiny?; H.Lenskyj Olympic Tales from the Tokyo, 1964, Seoul, 1988 and Beijing, 2008; J.Horne & W.Manzenreiter The XXI Canada's Claim or Montreal's Gain? Political and Social Tensions Surrounding the 1976 Montreal Olympics; T.Teixeira A Gold Medal for the The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan Era, and the Politics of Neoliberalism; R.Gruneau & R.Neubauer A Source of Crisis? Assessing Athens 2004; J.Karamichas Bringing the Mountains into the Legacy of the Winter Olympics, Turin 2006; E.Dansero & A.Mela The Social and Spatial Impacts of Olympic Image The Case of Beijing 2008; A.Broudehoux Living Lula's Passion? The Politics of Rio 2016; B.Clift & D.Andrews PART THE DISCIPLINES The Making - and Unmaking? - of the Olympic Corporate Class; A.Tomlinson The Economics and Marketing of the Olympic Games from Bid Phase to Aftermath; C.Shaw The Rings and the Television Spectacle and the Olympics; G.Whannel The Olympic Movement's New Media Monetization, Open Media and Intellectual Property; A.Miah & J.Jones Myth, Heritage and the Olympic Enterprise; T.Rider & K.Wamsley The Olympics, the Law and the Contradictions of Olympism; S.Greenfield, M.James & G.Osborn PART THE POLITICAL ISSUES Tilting at Olympic Politics and the Spectre of Amateurism; S.Wagg Celebrate Cultural Citizenship and the Global Branding of 'Multiculturalism'; M.Giardina, J.Metz & K.Bunds The Paralympic Empowerment or Disempowerment for People with Disabilities?; O.Schantz & K.Gilbert The Olympics and the Environment; J.Karamichas Securing the Olympic Exemplifications of Global Governance; P.Boyle The Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances in the Olympic History and Critical Issues; I.Ritchie The Olympic Industry and An Alternative Perspective; H.Lenskyj Disciplining 'Gender Verification' Politics and Women's Sport; J.Schultz The Love that Dare Not Speak its Corruption and the Olympics; A.Jennings 'There Will Be No Law That Will Come Against Us': A Foremost Episode of Indigenous Resistance and Activism Within Olympic History; C.O'Bonsawin The Olympics and Indigenous Australia; T.Bruce & E.Wensing The Olympics of 2012: East London's Renewal and Legacy; G.Poynter The Olympics Games and Housing; H.Blunden The Olympic Games and its Opponents; K.Zervas PART THE FOR AND AGAINST The Why we Should Value Them; I.Henry The Case Against the Olympic The Buck Stops with the IOC; H.Lenskyj Bibliography Index