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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'A fascinating book which depicts the deep evolution of Olympism as an ideology over three centuries of Olympic issues.' - Jean-Loup Chappelet, Professor of Public Management, Swiss Graduate School of Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
'This learned, ambitious study brings the ideologies of the Olympic Movement down to earth by examining them against the major transformations of the modern period and the day-to-day debates in which Olympic leaders were engaged. It's essential reading for anyone concerned with Olympic history and an historically informed, less polemic basis for scholarly critique.' - Bruce Kidd, Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Canada
'Based on a meticulous discourse analysis of the most influential theorists in the modern Olympic movement Dikaia Chatziefstathiou and Ian Henry have produced a comprehensive and thoroughly documented text describing and discussing the central strands of 'Olympism'. This outstanding work will be required reading for anyone interested in Olympic ideology.' - Otto Schantz, Professor in the Institute for Sport Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
'The authors put the dynamic historical process of studies on Olympism in a new perspective and re-evaluated it critically. It provokes creative ideas. It is a book worth having to all serious Olympic scholars and students.' - Hai Ren, Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies, Beijing Sport University, China
'The discussion of Olympism has been bedevilled by an endless debate between its defenders and detractors. In a refreshing new approach Chatziefstathiou and Henry examine the production of the discourse of Olympism over time. Case studies of de Coubertin, Diem and lecturers at the International Olympic Academy show how this discourse has an intriguing life of its own.' - Richard Cashman, Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
IAN HENRY Professor of Leisure Policy and Management and Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies & Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourses of Olympism
Book Subtitle: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012
Authors: Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Ian P. Henry
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137035561
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28957-4Published: 31 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33104-8Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03556-1Published: 30 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 305
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Policy, Social History, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Popular Science in Sports