The 2016 Summer Olympics are taking place in Rio, Brazil, this August, followed by the Paralympics in September. Below are selected resources about Olympic and Paralympic games available on Scholars Portal services. For more resources, visit the Books, Journals, or <odesi> platforms.
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Books
- The Politics of the Olympics
- Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games
- Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement
- More Than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics
- The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
- Olympic Games, Mega-Events, and Civil Societies: Globalization, Environment, Resistance
- Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future
- The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement: Through an Anthropological Lens
- The Montreal Olympics: An Insider’s View of Organizing a Self-Financing Games
- The Olympic Games Effect: How Sports Marketing Builds Strong Brands
- Sex, Power and the Games
Journal Articles
- The (In)validity of Supercrip Representation of Paralympian Athletes
- ‘No Olympics on Stolen Native Land’: Contesting Olympic Narratives and Asserting Indigenous Rights within the Discourse of the 2010 Vancouver Games
- Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities: The Spatial Experiences of Marginalized Youth in 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London
- Olympic Cities: Lessons Learned from Mega-Event Politics
- Not Just the Games? Power, Protest and Politics and the Olympics
- Pretty Versus Powerful in the Sports Pages: Print Media Coverage of U.S. Women’s Olympic Gold Medal Winning Teams
- Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee’s Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the 2004 Athens Summer Games
- Cyborg and Supercrip: The Paralympics Technology and the (Dis)empowerment of Disabled Athletes
- Public Opinion in Host Olympic Cities: The Case of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
- City Branding and the Olympic Effect: A Case Study of Beijing
Datasets
Public opinion polls in <odesi> highlight the attitudes of Canadians over the years towards the Olympics, and particularly toward the Games Canada has hosted or bid for.