This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations.

Autorentext
DIKAIA CHATZIEFSTATHIOU Reader in Olympic Studies at the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure in Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
IAN HENRY Professor of Leisure Policy and Management and Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies & Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhalt
Introduction: Developing Discursive Constructions of Olympism The Discursive Construction of Modern Olympic Histories Coubertin: Patronage and Paternalistic Discourses of Olympism (1887-1937) Carl Diem - Olympism in the Shadow of Fascism and the Post-war Rehabilitation (1912-1961) From Bi-polar to Multi-polar International Relations: Olympism and the Speakers at the International Olympic Academy in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Era Technologies of Power, Governmentality and Discourses of Olympism in the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Index