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The Olympic Legacy

Paperback
Published : Wednesday 7 June 2017
ISBN : 9781138096868
Price : €54.98


Description

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate. Drawing upon research conducted on the Beijing, Vancouver, Athens, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, it identifies the recurrent rhetoric that has characterised the legacy debate, alongside the harsh realities that contradict many legacies and aspirations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.



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