A cultural history of the 1984 Winter Olympics : the making of Olympic Sarajevo / Zlatko Jovanovic.
Jovanovic, Zlatko, author.
2021
GV722 1984 .J68 2021
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Title A cultural history of the 1984 Winter Olympics : the making of Olympic Sarajevo / Zlatko Jovanovic.
Author Jovanovic, Zlatko, author.
ISBN 9783030765989 (electronic bk.)
3030765989 (electronic bk.)
9783030765972
3030765970
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76598-9
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76598-9 doi
Call Number GV722 1984 .J68 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.98
Summary "This impressive monograph captures Sarajevo's fleeting Olympic moment, when the city stood as a proud 'Oasis' in a divided Cold War world. Casting non-aligned, socialist Yugoslavia in the best possible light, a transformed Olympic Sarajevo revelled in its role as a bastion of peace and tolerance, and as a culturally, economically, and environmentally progressive cosmopolitan city. In conveying this rich history, Jovanovic succeeds in challenging ingrained perceptions of the Cold War Olympics and of Yugoslavia's final decade." Richard Mills, author of The politics of Football in Yugoslavia. This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the book explores how the promotion of the city as a future global tourist centre resulted in an increased awareness among its populace of the citys cultural particularities. The analysis reveals how the process of modernisation relating to hosting of the Olympics provided an opportunity to re-imagine the city as a particularly environmentally progressive city. Placed within the field of studies of late socialism, the book offers important insights into Yugoslav society during the period, including those relating to the countrys unique geopolitical position and its nationalities policies. Zlatko Jovanovic is an affiliated researcher at the research centre The Many Roads in Modernity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe.
Available in Other Form CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE 1984 WINTER OLYMPICS.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Sarajevos Olympic Spirit
Chapter 2: Putting Sarajevo on the World Tourist Map
Chapter 3: Fixing Sarajevo for the Olympics
Chapter 4. Catching Up With the West with the Sarajevo Olympics
Chapter 5: Inventing Sarajevo as an Ultimate Olympic City
Chapter 6: Framing Olympic Sarajevo as a truly Yugoslav city
Chapter 7: Sarajevos Olympic Benchmark.

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