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Author Lenskyj, Helen.

Title The best Olympics ever? : social impacts of Sydney 2000 / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series, sport, culture, and social relations
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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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.
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Subject Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
Olympic Games.
Jeux olympiques (27es : 2000 : Sydney, N.-G. du S.)
Jeux olympiques d'été. 27 2000 Sydney.
Olympische Spiele.
Olympics -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History.
Olympics -- Social aspects.
Australia.
History.
Olympics.
Olympics -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- History.
Olympics -- Economic aspects.
Indexed Term Sydney Olympische Spiele Australien Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lenskyj, Helen. Best Olympics ever?. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 0791454738 0791454746 (DLC) 2001055121 (OCoLC)48397457
ISBN 0585478635 (electronic book)
9780585478630 (electronic book)
0791454738 (alkaline paper)
9780791454732 (alkaline paper)
0791454746 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791454749 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791488102
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