Research Catalog

Title

Brazil's Dance with the Devil : The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy / By Dave Zirin.

Author

Zirin, Dave

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2014]
• ©2014.

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Details

Description

xi, 246 pages : illustrations, map, portraits,; 22 cm

Summary

As the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games approach, ordinary Brazilians are holding the country's biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to Zirin examines how athletic mega-events turn into neoliberal Trojan horses.

Subject

• World Cup (Soccer) (2014 : Brazil) > Political aspects
• World Cup (Soccer) (2014 : Brazil) > Social aspects
• Olympic Games 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) > Political aspects
• Olympic Games 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) > Social aspects
• Sports > Brazil > History > 21st century
• Soccer > Tournaments > Political aspects > Brazil
• Soccer > Tournaments > Social aspects > Brazil
• Sports tournaments > Political aspects > Brazil
• Sports tournaments > Social aspects > Brazil
• Democracy > Brazil

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Finding Michael Jackson in Brazil -- Brazil: "A Country for Everyone" -- "There Is No Sin Below the Equator" -- Oh, Lula! -- Futebol: The Journey from Daring to Fear -- Killing Santa -- Neoliberal Trojan Horses and Sporting Shock Doctrines -- Target Fevelas -- "FIFA-Quality Schools"

ISBN

• 1608463605 (paperback)
• 9781608463602 (paperback)

OCLC

• 859046462
• SCSB-12257438

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library