Olympism: The Global Vision: From Nationalism to Internationalism

by Majumdar; Boria

• ISBN13: 9780415486248
• ISBN10: 0415486246
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympic movement in the modern context has been, and continues to be, socially relevant and politically important.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: The IOC Olympic Studies Centre

The Lausanne Olympic Studies Centre Research Grants Programme

Prologue: The Story of the Homecoming: IOC weds IJHS

The Latin American 'Olympic Explosion' of the 1920s: Causes and Consequences

The Modern Olympic Movement, Women's Sports and the Social Ordering During the Interwar- Period

Conflicts of 1930s Japanese Olympic Diplomacy in Universalizing the Olympic Movement

'A Debt Was Paid Off in Tears': Science, IOC Politics and the Debate about High Altitude in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

'If You Want to Cry, Cry on the Green Mats of Kadakan': Expressions of Japanese Cultural and National Identity in the Movement to Include Judo into the Olympic Games

Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement: The Correspondence of Reginald S. Alexander and the International Olympic Committee, 1961-86

When North-South Fight, the Nation is out of Sight: The Politics of Olympic Sport in Postcolonial India

A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization

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