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Author Lenskyj, Helen

Title The best Olympics ever? : social impacts of Sydney 2000 / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Series SUNY series, sport, culture, and social relations
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
Contents The mass media: Olympic industry boosters and critics -- Police, protest, and Olympic legislation: "you've got to keep the buggers under control" -- Black and White Australia: reconciliation and Sydney 2000 -- "You can't share the spirit if you can't pay the rent": housing and homelessness in the Olympic City -- Olympic values, impacts, and issues: the real legacy -- Productive partnerships: corporatized Universities meet the Olympic industry -- " I'm not against the Olympics, but ... ": local and global resistance -- Bondi Beach volleyball stadium: the battlers lose the beach -- September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: democracy at risk
Summary Cet ouvrage, provocateur et stimulant, examine différents aspects des JO de Sydney 2000 sous un oeil critique : quels impacts sociaux et coûts réels? Une analyse sociologique qui prend le contrepied des rapports officiels. Annexes
Analysis Sydney Olympische Spiele Australien Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
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SUBJECT Olympische Spiele. swd
Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95029966
Olympic Games fast
Jeux olympiques d'été. 27 2000 Sydney. rero
Subject Olympics -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History
Olympics -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- History
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Olympics.
Olympics -- Economic aspects
Olympics -- Social aspects
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Olympische Spiele -- Sydney (2000)
Olympische Spiele -- Soziologie.
Australia
Australien
Sydney
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585478635
9780585478630
0791454738
9780791454732
0791454746
9780791454749
9780791488102
0791488101