Olympism: The Global Vision: From Nationalism to Internationalism

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Boria Majumdar (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Sandra Collins (California State University, USA)

Olympism

The Global Vision: From Nationalism to Internationalism

Boria Majumdar (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Sandra Collins (California State University, USA)

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Routledge
30 October 2007

Olympic games

Series: Sport in the Global Society

The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political; it is politics. It is also culture and art.

This collaboration is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympism and the Olympic movement in the modern context has been, and continues to be, socially relevant and politically important. Studies focus on national encounters with Olympism and the Olympic movement, with equal attention paid to document the growing nexus between sports and the media; sports reportage; as well as women and sports.

Olympism asserts that the Olympic movement was, and is, of central importance to twentieth and twenty-first century societies. Finally, the collection demonstrates that the essence of Olympism and the Olympic movement is important only in so far as it affects societies surrounding it.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Edited by: Boria Majumdar (University of Central Lancashire UK), Sandra Collins (California State University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780415425377
ISBN 10: 0415425379
Series: Sport in the Global Society
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 30 October 2007
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.