The Ideals of Global Sport : From Peace to Human Rights / Barbara J. Keys.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keys, Barbara J., Editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--International cooperation.

Sports.

Internationalism.

Human rights.

Olympics.

Sports and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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 sports competitions make the world a better place. Promoters of the Olympic Games and similar global sports events have spent more than a century telling us that these festivals offer a multitude of "goods": that they foster friendship and mutual understanding among peoples and nations, promote peace, combat racism, and spread democracy. In recent years boosters have suggested that sports mega-events can advance environmental protection in a world threatened by climate change, stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty in developing nations, and promote human rights in repressive countries. If the claims are to be believed, sport is the most powerful and effective form of idealistic internationalism on the planet.The Ideals of Global Sport investigates these grandiose claims, peeling away the hype to reveal the reality: that shockingly little evidence underpins these endlessly repeated assertions. The essays, written by scholars from many regions and disciplines and drawn from an exceptionally diverse array of sources, show that these bold claims were sometimes cleverly leveraged by activist groups to pressure sports bodies into supporting moral causes. But the essays methodically debunk sports organizations' inflated proclamations about the record of their contributions to peace, mutual understanding, antiracism, and democracy.Exposing enduring shortcomings in the newer realm of human rights protection, from the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games to Brazil's 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics, The Ideals of Global Sport suggests that sport's idealistic pretensions can have distinctly non-idealistic side effects, distracting from the staggering financial costs of hosting the events, serving corporate interests, and aiding the spread of neoliberal globalization.Contributors: Jules Boykoff, Susan Brownell, Roland Burke, Simon Creak, Dmitry Dubrovsky, Joon Seok Hong, Barbara J. Keys, Renate Nagamine, João Roriz, Robert Skinner.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. The Ideals of International Sport

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780812295993

0812295994

OCLC:

1086209607