National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on the Olympic Games and the men’s football (soccer) World Cup, the contributors examine the political, cultural, economic, and ideological influences that frame these events. Selected case studies include the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin, the 1934 World Cup Finals in Italy, the unique case of the 1972 Munich Games, the transformative 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and the 2002 Asian World Cup Finals, among others. The case studies show how the Olympics and the World Cup Finals provide a basis for the articulation of entrenched and dominant political ideologies, encourage persisting senses of national identity, and act as barometers for the changing ideological climate of the modern and increasingly globalized contemporary world. Through rigorous scholarly analyses, the book’s contributors help to illuminate the increasing significance of large-scale sporting events on the international stage.
Biblioteca
Identidade Nacional
National identity and global sports events
culture, politics, and spetacle in the olympics and the football world cup
Arquivos
Resumo (outro idioma)
Sumário
Acknowledgments, vii
Chapter 1
Culture, politics, and spectacle in the global sports event – an introduction, 1
Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young
Chapter 2
The theory of spectacle: reviewing Olympic ethnography, 15
John J. MacAloon
Chapter 3
Italy 1934: football and fascism, 41
Robert S. C. Gordon, John London
Chapter 4
Berlin 1936: the most controversial Olympics, 65
Allen Guttmann
Chapter 5
England 1966: traditional and modern?, 83
Tony Mason
Chapter 6
Mexico City 1968: sombreros and skyscrapers, 99
Claire Brewster, Keith Brewster
Chapter 7
Munich 1972: re-presenting the nation, 117
Christopher Young
Chapter 8
Argentina 1978: military nationalism, football essentialism, and moral ambivalence, 133
Eduardo P. Archetti
Chapter 9
Moscow 1980: stalinism or goog, clean fun?, 149
Robert Edelman
Chapter 10
Los Angeles 1984 and 1932: commercializing the American dream, 163
Alan Tomlinson
Chapter 11
Barcelona 1992: evaluating the Olympic legacy, 177
Christopher Kennett, Miquel de Moragas
Chapter 12
Sydney 2000: sociality and spatiality in global media events, 197
David Rowe, Deborah Stevenson
Chapter 13
Korea and Japan 2002: public space and popular celebration, 215
Soon-Ehe Whang
Contributors, 233
Index, 237
Book in series, 245
