Olympic Industry Resistance, book by Helen Lenskyj
Olympic Industry Resistance - Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda
by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
With this book, scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj takes a critical look at the Olympic industry. The book examines the developments of the Olympic industry in the post-9/11 and postbribery scandal era.
Examining events and activism in host cities, as well as in several locations that bid unsuccessfully on the Olympics, Lenskyj shows how basic rights and freedoms, particularly of the press and of assembly, are compromised. Lenskyj investigates the pro-Olympic bias in media treatment of bids and preparations, the “fallen hero” phenomenon that includes doping and female athletes who pose nude in calendars, and takes issue with “Olympic education” curricular materials for schoolchildren. Also discussed are the problems of housing and homelessness created when the Olympics become a catalyst for urban redevelopment projects.
Other books about the Olympics by Helen Lenskyj:
Inside the Olympic Industry (2000)
Best Olympics Ever? (2002)
Olympic Industry Resistance - Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda
by Helen Jefferson Lensky
Suny Press 2008
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7480-8
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4631-olympic-industry-resistance.aspx
