Barbaric sport
Subtitle: a global plague
By: Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844678594; 9781844679133
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Sports; Corrupt practices; Sports and globalization; Sports and state
Work titles: Sport barbare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from French.
Table of contents: title: The real nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, the football World Cup, Argentina 1978; title: Beijing 2008: the games of shame; title: The Olympic charter; title: Competitive sport: globalized sports-spectacle and national fetish; title: Sport: as old as the world?; title: Origin and development of the theses on the critique of sport; title: The stadium: consolidation of the masses; title: Sport, culture and youth; title: The sporting champion: addiction and drugs; title: The globalization of sport through doping; title: The globalization of sport and the sporting mode of production; title: The show stadium; title: The power of images; title: A standardized aesthetic; title: Sexuality, homosexuality and sport; title: The religion of sport; title: The critique of sport as it was; title: The arrival of sport as an academic discipline; title: The future of the critique of sport.