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Canterbury Christ Church University
Discourses of Olympism: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012. Global Culture and Sport.
The book’s origins are in Chatziefstathiou's PhD, but the arguments developed go significantly beyond her doctoral work by adopting extended methodological and theoretical frameworks deriving from post-PhD projects, most notably her IOC funded study of Regional Games. The book comprises material that could have been developed into at least four separate articles/essays on the analysis of the discourse of key actors in the Olympic system (Coubertin, Diem, the IOA, contemporary commentators) as well as two further papers on: historical conjunctures of Olympic policy; development of the Foucauldian framework to explain the discursive construction of the moral foundations for Olympism.
