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9780791488102

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Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.
Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Websites

Introduction

1. The Mass Media: Olympic Industry Boosters and Critics

2. Police, Protest, and Olympic Legislation: "You've Got to Keep the Buggers under Control"

3. Black and White Australia: Reconciliation and Sydney 2000

4. "You Can't Share the Spirit if You Can't Pay the Rent": Housing and Homelessness in the Olympic City

5. Olympic Values, Impacts, and Issues: The Real Legacy

6. Productive Partnerships: Corporatized Universities Meet the Olympic Industry

7. "I'm Not Against the Olympics, But. . . .": Local and Global Resistance

8. Bondi Beach Volleyball Stadium: The Battlers Lose the Beach

9. September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: Democracy at Risk

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780791488102

Langue

English

The Best Olympics Ever? Q

SUNY series, Sport, Culture, and Social Relations C.L. Cole and Michael A. Messner, editors

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Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

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Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson. The best Olympics ever? : social impacts of Sydney 2000 / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj. p. cm. — (SUNY series, sport, culture, and social relations) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-7914-5473-8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5474-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.) 2. Olympics—Social aspects—Australia—History. 3. Olympics—Economic aspects—Australia—History. I. Title. II. SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Websites Introduction 1 The Mass Media: Olympic Industry Boosters and Critics 2 Police, Protest, and Olympic Legislation: “You’ve Got to Keep the Buggers under Control” 3 Black and White Australia: Reconciliation and Sydney 2000 4 “You Can’t Share the Spirit if You Can’t Pay the Rent”: Housing and Homelessness in the Olympic City 5 Olympic Values, Impacts, and Issues: The Real Legacy 6 Productive Partnerships: Corporatized Universities Meet the Olympic Industry 7 “I’m Not Against the Olympics, But. . . .”: Local and Global Resistance 8 Bondi Beach Volleyball Stadium: The Battlers Lose the Beach 9 September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: Democracy at Risk Conclusion Appendix References Index

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I would like to thank all the community leaders and activists in Sydney who generously gave their time and energy to help me complete this book. Without their invaluable input, the book would simply not have been written. I also wish to acknowledge the University of New South Wales Center for Olympic Studies, where I spent over four months as a visiting scholar. Its director, Prof. Richard Cashman, and coordinator, Tony Hughes, were most supportive and gracious hosts, and the center provided me with a welcoming academic home while I was in Sydney completing the re-search for this book. Once again, friends and colleagues at the University of Toronto, the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology Sydney, and elsewhere have been most supportive and helpful, as, of course, has my home department, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Prof. Jim McKay, of the University of Queensland, and the anononymous reviewers provided constructive criticism and helpful feedback on the ﬁrst draft of this book, and I am grateful for their serious engagement with my work. Thanks to State University of New York Press acquisitions editors Ron Helfrich and Dale Cotton, to Sport, Culture, and Social Relations series editors C. L. Cole and Michael A. Messner, production editor Judith Block, marketing manager Patrick Durocher, and copyeditor Marilyn Silverman. Thank you to Liz Green for her invaluable help with research and proofreading, and Jeanie Stewart for indexing assistance. Finally, I would like to thank my partner and my children, without whose love and support this would not have been possible.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) <www.atsic.gov.au> Anti-Olympic Alliance (AOA) <www.cat.org.au/aoa/news.html> Associated Press (AP) Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) <www.abc.net.au> Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) <www.abs.gov.au> Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Australian Defence Force (ADF) Australian Federal Police (AFP) <www.afp.gov.au> Australian Greens <www.greens.org.au> Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Australian Labor Party (ALP) Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) <www.asio.gov.au> Australian Society for Sport History (ASSH) Australian Tourist Commission (ATC) <www.atc.net.au> Bankstown Bushland Society (BBS) Bondi Olympic Watch (BOW) Cable News Network (CNN) Campaign Against Corporate Tyranny with Unity and Solidarity (CACTUS) Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAWS) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Central business district (CBD) Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Daily Telegraph <www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au> Darling Harbor Authority (DHA) Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation (DTAC) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) <www.dfat.gov.au> Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Olympic Security Intelligence Center (FOSIC) Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Goods and Services Tax (GST) Green Games Watch 2000 (GGW2000) Green Left Weekly <www.greenleft.org.au> Greenpeace Australia <www.greenpeace.org.au> The GuardianK.) <www.guardianunlimited.co.uk> (U. Homebush Bay Environmental Reference Group (HomBERG)

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