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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).
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
Olympic Games. (OCoLC)fst01408249
Jeux olympiques d'été. 27 2000 Sydney.
Olympische Spiele.
Olympics -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History.
Olympics -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Olympics.
Olympics -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01045589
Olympics -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01045608
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
Olympische Spiele -- Sydney (2000)
Olympische Spiele -- Soziologie.
Sozioökonomischer Wandel.
Sydney.
Australia.
Indexed Term Sydney Olympische Spiele Australien Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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 bk.)
9780585478630 (electronic bk.)
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