Overview
- Places sport within the context of the Cold War
- Discusses local implications of global Olympic culture
- Uses a global approach to analyse history of Yugoslavia
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sarajevo, ‘The Place’ (Local/Non-local Dimension of the Sarajevo Olympics)
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Sarajevo, the Modern (Modern/Non-modern Dimension of the Sarajevo Olympics)
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Sarajevo, ‘An Oasis’ (National/Non-national Dimension of the Sarajevo Olympics)
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About this book
This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the book explores how the promotion of the city as a future global tourist centre resulted in an increased awareness among its populace of the city’s cultural particularities. The analysis reveals how the process of modernisation relating to hosting of the Olympics provided an opportunity to re-imagine the city as a particularly environmentally progressive city. Placed within the field of studies of late socialism, the book offers important insights into Yugoslav society during the period, including those relating to the country’s unique geopolitical position and its nationalities policies.
Reviews
"This impressive monograph captures Sarajevo’s fleeting Olympic moment, when the city stood as a proud ‘Oasis’ in a divided Cold War world. Casting non-aligned, socialist Yugoslavia in the best possible light, a transformed Olympic Sarajevo revelled in its role as a bastion of peace and tolerance, and as a culturally, economically, and environmentally progressive cosmopolitan city. In conveying this rich history, Jovanović succeeds in challenging ingrained perceptions of the Cold War Olympics and of Yugoslavia’s final decade."
—Richard Mills, author of The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zlatko Jovanovic is an affiliated researcher at the research centre The Many Roads in Modernity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics
Book Subtitle: The Making of Olympic Sarajevo
Authors: Zlatko Jovanovic
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76598-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76597-2Published: 20 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76600-9Published: 21 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76598-9Published: 19 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Urban History, Cultural History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History