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John J. Macaloon

Bearing Light

Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

John J. Macaloon

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English
Routledge
30 June 2021
Olympic games
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and interprets the transformation of the ritual across a 25-year period, from Los Angeles 1984 through the IOC’s 2009 announcement that, in the aftermath of the politically contentious Beijing performance, there will be no more global relays. This volume offers a rare case study of continuity and change in a leading transnational and trans-cultural ritual form.

Through data publicly revealed for the first time, the reader is carried fully backstage and into the conflicts and negotiations among Olympic organizing committees, the Greek Olympic movement, national governments, and transnational actors like the IOC, commercial sponsors, and operations management firms. Readers will come to know the leading flame relay authorities and practitioners, gaining a deeper understanding of the Olympic managerial revolution with its characteristic ‘world’s best practice’ language. Analysis of the transnational flow of Olympic operations management offers important corrections to much existing globalization theory by demonstrating both how powerful and how culturally and politically parochial world’s best practices can turn out to be. The dialectic between the cultural performance genres of ritual and spectacle provides a further intellectual architecture for these studies posing the question of whether the Olympic Movement will be able to survive the successes of the Olympic Sports Industry.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781138849730
ISBN 10:   1138849731
Series:   Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Pages:   206
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Introduction: the Olympic Flame Relay. Local knowledges of a global ritual form 2. This flame, our eyes: Greek/American/IOC relations, 1984 – 2002, an ethnographic memoir 3. Olympic Flame Relay operations under a ‘world’s best practices’ regime: a conversation with Steven McCarthy 4. ‘My programme became very strict’: a conversation with Athanassios Kritsinelis 5. The 2004 International Relay: a Greek around the world with the Olympic Flame 6. Struggling to celebrate: management of the 2004 Olympic Flame Relay segment in Greece 7. American media, intercultural stories and the 2004 Olympic flame ceremonies 8. Hybridity and subversion: the Olympic flame in India

John J. MacAloon is Professor and Academic Associate Dean in the Social Sciences Graduate Division and Professor in The College at The University of Chicago. His anthropological and historical studies of the modern Olympic Movement and Olympic Games have earned a global reputation. He was an executive member of the International Olympic Committee 2000 Reform Commission and has advised many Olympic bid and organizing committees and National Olympic Committees.

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