The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (PDF)

KARAMICHAS Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, UK
BARBARA KEYS Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia
DAVID CLAY LARGE Professor of History at Montana State University, USA
DAVID LUNT Adjunct Instructor in History at Southern Utah University, USA
WOLFRAM MANZENREITER Assistant Professor in the Japanese Studies Division of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
ALFREDO MELA Professor in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Turin, Italy
JENNIFER L. METZ Visiting Professor of American Studies and Sport Studies at the University of Iowa, USA
ANDY MIAH Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Director of the Creative Futures Research Centre at the University of Western Scotland, UK
ROBERT NEUBAUER Masters student in Communication at Simon Fraser University, Cananda
CHRISTINE O'BONSAWIN Assistant Professor the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada
GUY OSBORN Professor in the Department of Academic Legal Studies at the University of Westminster, UK
GAVIN POYNTER Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London, UK
TOBY RIDER PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
IAN RITCHIE Associate Professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, Canada
OTTO SCHANTZ Professor of Cultural Studies and the Head of the Department of Sport Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
JAMIE SCHULTZ Assistant Professor in Physical Cultural Studies and Sport History at Pennsylvania State University, USA
CHRISTOPHER SHAW Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada
TERRENCE TEIXEIRA Independent scholar, based in Toronto, Canada
ALAN TOMLINSON Professor of Leisure Studies in the Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK
KEVIN WAMSLEY Professor the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
EMMA WENSING Independent scholar, based in Australia
GARRY WHANNEL Professor of Media Cultures at the University of Bedfordshire, UK
KONSTANTINOS ZERVAS did doctoral research on anti-Olympic movements in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

veneer of the Olympic ideal said to promote international peace, understanding and unity is a global commercial spectacle embedded in a web of hierarchical social, political, and economic relations. This provocative anthology should be required reading for anyone interested in a critical understanding of the Olympic movement.' - Mary G. McDonald, Professor, Miami University, USA, and past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

'At last! An impressive encyclopaedic work covering the good, bad, beautiful and the ugly in Olympism. For athletes and fans, for critics and sceptics, everything is here: de Courbetin's early visions, amateurism, class, gender, disabilities, environment, drugs, globalisation, the enterprise and the marketing, Asian host cities, the Cold War, and Nazi Games.' - Colin Tatz, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

'This is, in the reviewer's opinion, simply the best single serious volume on the study of the Olympic Games movement produced to date...This has to be a must for all libraries covering sport. With the considerable public interest in the Olympic Games, it will be well used by all sections of the community school children undertaking projects, students studying sport, descriptive and investigative journalists wanting to have context or understanding of what the Olympic Games are all about and planners understanding the processes and consequences of hosting, benefitting and/or suffering from sporting events.' - Reference Reviews

"The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies is a welcome addition to an increasingly complex and growing body of literature and is one which will help shape the field through more critically informed analyses." - Vassil Girginov, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics