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Olimpismo : the Olympic movement in the making of Latin America and the Caribbean

Title

Olimpismo : the Olympic movement in the making of Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres.

Publication

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2020.
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Description

x, 265 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the variegated ways in which Latin American and Caribbean societies have been made through their participation in the Olympic Movement since its beginning late in the nineteenth century. The study of the Olympic Movement, in its different manifestations, not just following its European origins, but also considering the agency, struggles, and contributions of Latin American and Caribbean societies to this phenomenon offers a more balanced perspective of the Olympic Movement's history and this region's role in it, while at the same time illuminating the role that the Olympic Movement played in the making of this region. Thus, the book provides potent vistas of the varied ways in which the Olympic Movement has played a significant role in broader social, political, and cultural processes in these societies, and occasionally beyond them. Similarly, it allows to observe and evaluate Latin American and Caribbean influences on the Olympic Movement, as well as the actors and actresses, rationales, and forces at play"--

Series Statement

Sport, culture & society

Uniform Title

Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)

Alternative Title

Olympic movement in the making of Latin America and the Caribbean

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sports policy, the YMCA, and the early history of Olympism in Uruguay / by Shunsuke Matsuo -- Enthusiastic yet awkward dance partners : Olympism and Cuban nationalism / by Thomas F. Carter -- Olympic diplomacy and national redemption in post-revolutionary Mexico / by Keith Brewster and Claire Brewster -- The nationalist movement and the struggle for freedom in Puerto Rico's Olympic sport / by Antonio Sotomayor -- Adhemar Fereira da Silva : representations of the Brazilian Olympic hero / by Fabio de Faria Peres and Victor Andrade de Melo -- Solving "the problem of Argentine sport" : the post-Peronist Olympic movement in Argentina / by Cesar R. Torres -- Un compromiso de tod@s : women, Olympism, and the Dominican third way / by April Yoder -- Dis-assembling the logocentric subject at the Paralympic Games : the case of Colombian powerlifter Fabio Torres / by Chloe Rutter-Jensen -- In search of the Olympic Games' future significances : contributions from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro / by Lamartine Pereira DaCosta.

Call Number

JFE 20-6152

ISBN

9781682261101
1682261107
9781610756792 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019017229

OCLC

1113406528

Title

Olimpismo : the Olympic movement in the making of Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres.

Publisher

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sport, culture & society

Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sotomayor, Antonio, editor.

Torres, César R., editor.

University of Arkansas Press.

Other Form:

Online version: Sotomayor, Antonio. Olimpismo. Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2020. 9781610756792 (DLC) 2019980355

Sudoc No.

HI.F 3/178-8:O 44/2020 ardocs

Research Call Number

JFE 20-6152

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