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Promises, Promises [PDF]

, 2005
As host of the Olympic Games, China seeks to increase national economic and socialdevelopment and "display to the world a new image of China", and presents the Games as an opportunity to foster democracy, improve human rights and integrate China with the
Amy Tai, Elisabeth Wickeri, Ellen Payne
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Sports Performance and Shaping International Image of a China: Towards Beijing 2008 Olympic Games [PDF]

, 2017
China is a country that has been using sport in order to reach political goals for many years. Lately such political exploitation of sport is directed at shaping the desirable international image of this country.
Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
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The Olympic transport legacy [PDF]

, 2010
This article examine sustainable transport provision for the London 2012Olympics and its intended legacy role in economic and social regeneration across East London. It concludes that ultimately, legacy success will depend on the ability to adapt to, and
Ieromonachou, Petros, Potter, Stephen, Warren, James   +2 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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STUDIU PRIVIND NECESITATEA INTENSIFICĂRII ACŢIUNILOR DE EDUCAŢIE OLIMPICĂ ÎN ŞCOLI

Sport şi Societate, 2014
In 1997, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) recommended to all governments to introduce, together with the national Olympic committees, Olympism in schools.
Ababei Catalina
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Bulgarian sport policy 1945-1989: A strategic relation perspective [PDF]

, 2009
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems ...
Bankov P., Bankov P., BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BOC (Bulgarian Olympic Committee), Brinton A., BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), Girginov V., Girginov V., Gruneau R., Haralampiev D., Henry I., Jessop B., Levinson C., Manolova M., Nassis P., Offe C., Riordan J., Riordan J., Stoichev A., Toshkova V., Vassev A., Vassil Girginov, Velev G., Weiss L.   +39 more
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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The Impact of the Thailand Olympic Academy on the Olympic Movement in Thailand. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the Thailand Olympic Academy (TOA) from 2010 to 2018 has attained its goals, to assess the outcomes of this program and to determine the short term and long-term impact of the program on the ...
Suriyan Somphong, Issadee Kutintara, Komkrit Rattamanee   +2 more
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An Analytical Overview of the Rebirth of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement

ACROSS, 2022
Collective mentality, due to specialized literature together with media, perpetuated the idea that the rebirth of the Olympic Games and the opening of the modern era in this respect is to be exclusively attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863 ...
Gheorghe BRANIȘTE, Dr
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