Library: GC Times Talk: Nov 16, 2022

"Sportswashing: Countries are using top-flight sports to distract from their human rights violations and improve their image. Should we care?"

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The Olympic Games by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
ISBN: 9781838677756
Publication Date: 2020-04-15
Inside the Olympic Industry by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
ISBN: 0585268843
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Playing Tough by Roger I. Abrams
Call Number: GV706.35 .A37 2013
ISBN: 9781555537531
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Playing Tough is an entertaining and thoroughly enlightening look at the unique and surprisingly outsized role that sports have played in politics and history. Ever since the bread and circuses of Rome, sports have been used as a tool to entertain the masses and to instill civic pride. Abrams shows both the positive and the negative ways in which sports and politics have coalesced, from the rabid nationalism of the 1936 Nazi Olympics, the political grudge match of the Louis and Schmeling fights, and the "futbol war" between Honduras and Costa Rica to the inspiring stories of South Africa's rugby nation-building and Muhammad Ali's brave antiwar stance, which nearly cost him his career. Abrams is an informed and impassioned writer who chronicles the profoundly creative and destructive influence that sports have on the political life of our nation and the world.This book will be of interest to any and all sports and politics enthusiasts and is a wonderful introduction for course creation and adoption.
Sport in Capitalist Society by Tony Collins
ISBN: 1135081980
Publication Date: 2013-04-12

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