Heritage and the Olympics: People, Place and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781138949508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 128 str.

Sean Gammon; Gregory Ramshaw; Emma Waterton

Opis

This edited collection offers detailed and thought-provoking examples of heritage, and illustrates powerfully the breadth, passion and cultural significance that the Olympics engender. It also offers a unique and invaluable insight into what heritage reveals about the meaning and value of the Olympic Games.

It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Spis treści

1. Examining the Olympics: heritage, identity and performance  2. London’s Olympic waterscape: capturing transition  3. The Olympics, amateurism and Britain’s coaching heritage  4. Cathy Freeman and Australia’s Indigenous heritage: a new beginning for an old nation at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games  5. The marginalisation of Paralympic heritage  6. Non-events and their legacies: Parisian heritage and the Olympics that never were  7. Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: exploring the facets of Athens’ Olympic heritage  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Sean Gammon is based at the University of Central Lancashire. He is widely published in the area of sport tourism, focusing on customer motivation, nostalgia and heritage. In addition he continues to contribute to the field of leisure; recently co-editing a new text on, Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure. London: Routledge. Gregory Ramshaw is based in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. His research primarily examines the social construction of heritage with a particular interest in sport-based heritage. He has been widely published in numerous international academic texts and journals. He is also the co-editor of Heritage Sport Tourism: Sporting Pasts – Tourist Futures, published by Routledge. Emma Waterton is based in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. Her current research explores the interface between heritage, identity, memory and affect at a range of Australian heritage tourism sites. She is author of Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-author of Heritage, Communities and Archaeology (with Laurajane Smith; 2009, Duckworth).