Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

ISBN-13: 9781138849730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

John J. Macaloon

Opis

This extended ethnological research offers a rare case study of continuity and change in the Olympic torch relay, a leading transnational and trans-cultural ritual form.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the Olympic Flame Relay. Local knowledges of a global ritual form  2. This flame, our eyes: Greek/American/IOC relations, 1984 – 2002, an ethnographic memoir  3. Olympic Flame Relay operations under a ‘world’s best practices’ regime: a conversation with Steven McCarthy  4. ‘My programme became very strict’: a conversation with Athanassios Kritsinelis  5. The 2004 International Relay: a Greek around the world with the Olympic Flame  6. Struggling to celebrate: management of the 2004 Olympic Flame Relay segment in Greece  7. American media, intercultural stories and the 2004 Olympic flame ceremonies  8. Hybridity and subversion: the Olympic flame in India

O autorze

John J. MacAloon is Professor and Academic Associate Dean in the Social Sciences Graduate Division and Professor in The College at The University of Chicago. His anthropological and historical studies of the modern Olympic Movement and Olympic Games have earned a global reputation. He was an executive member of the International Olympic Committee 2000 Reform Commission and has advised many Olympic bid and organizing committees and National Olympic Committees.