The Ideals of Global Sport : : From Peace to Human Rights / / ed. by Barbara J. Keys.
"Sport has the power to change the world," South African president Nelson Mandela told the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo in 2000. Today, we are inundated with similar claims—from politicians, diplomats, intellectuals, journalists, athletes, and fans—about the many ways that international sp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Ideals of International Sport
- Part I: The Core Ideals
- Chapter 1. Friendship and Mutual Understanding: Sport and Regional Relations in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 2. Antidiscrimination: Racism and the Case of South Africa
- Chapter 3. Democracy and Democratization: The Ambiguous Legacy
- Chapter 4. Peace: The United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, and the Renovation of the Olympic Truce
- Part II: The Rise of Human Rights
- Chapter 5. Reframing Human Rights: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Sport
- Chapter 6. The Moscow 1980 and Sochi 2014 Olympic Games: Dissent and Repression
- Chapter 7. Hosting the Olympic Games in Developed Countries: Debating the Human Rights Ideals of Sport
- Chapter 8. The View from China: Two Olympic Bids, One Olympic Games, and China’s Changing Rights Consciousness
- Chapter 9. Competing for Rights? Human Rights and Recent Sport Mega-Events in Brazil
- Conclusion. The Future of Idealism in Sport
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments