Nadezda Lebedeva

Sport Versus Politics

Examining Olympic Boycotts that Have Occurred (1980, 1984) and Have Been Avoided (2008)

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This work is an attempt to view sport-politics relations through a sociological perspective. The active involvement of ruling elites in the process of organization of big sport events or the use of sport as an opportunity to act in the international relations field, all these indicate that sport and politics are related. These two institutions affect each other and the influence of sport, especially in its modern form of mega-events, upon politics seems to be an interesting phenomenon. To find out how strongly sport can influence politics and vice versa, three situations concerning Olympic boycotts were examined through an approach, based o… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-3-8383-5345-6
EAN: 9783838353456
Produktnummer: 37658282
Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.4 cm 113 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 113

Über den Autor

A Siberian native, Nadezda Lebedeva graduated in History (Oriental Studies) at Humanities Department, Novosibirsk State University, Russia. She got her M.A. degree in History (European Political Sociology) at Dalarna University, Sweden. The research interests concern the role of games and their different characteristics in various societies.