TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perelman,Marc
TI  - Barbaric sport: a global plague 
SN  - 1844678598
AV  - GV706.35 .P47513 2012
U1  - 306.483 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Sports and state
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Sports and globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134); The real nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, the football World Cup, Argentina 1978 -- Beijing 2008: the games of shame -- The Olympic charter -- Competitive sport: globalized sports-spectacle and national fetish -- Sport: as old as the world? -- Origin and development of the theses on the critique of sport -- The stadium: consolidation of the masses -- Sport, culture and youth -- The sporting champion: addiction and drugs -- The globalization of sport through doping -- The globalization of sport and the sporting mode of production -- The show stadium -- The power of images -- A standardized aesthetic -- Sexuality, homosexuality and sport -- The religion of sport -- The critique of sport as it was -- The arrival of sport as an academic discipline -- The future of the critique of sport
ER  -