Paul Dimeo
Biographic Data
| ID | 365615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Dimeo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimeo |
| SIGNATURE | DIMEO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4219-7687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Time Out
In the edited collection Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from a global perspective. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the effects of the global lockdown on sport during March and April 2020, when restrictions were at their most severe and the human toll at its peak in many co…
Time Out
This paper examines the impact of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland on Gaelic games and the sports-media complex in Ireland via an analysis of the media discourses surrounding these sports. It focuses principally on the period between March 12th (when the Irish government announced the lockdown confirming the suspension of Gaelic games fixtures) and May 12th. Gaelic games provide a unique focus on the topic of sport and the lockdown; they ar…
Risk and enabling environments in sport
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport
"The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the approach developed and implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WA…
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport
The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the approach developed and implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WAD…
The new front in the war on doping
Why Lance Armstrong? Historical Context and Key Turning Points in the ‘Cleaning Up’ of Professional Cycling
The US Anti-Doping Agency published its evidence against Lance Armstrong in October 2012 after a lengthy investigation and a series of testimonies from his former US Postal Service teammates. This article aims to understand the development processes – local and global – that led eventually to his ‘confession’ in January 2013 on the Oprah Winfrey show. By taking a chronological approach from the 1980s onwards, the following key themes will be addr…
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
Soccer in South Asia
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined
Sport Under Communism
Mike Dennis and Jonathan Grix, Sport Under Communism: Behind the East German ‘Miracle’ (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. 261. £57.50 (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-22784-2 When the United States A
Medicine, Sport and the Body
Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 30(18), pp. 2230–2231
The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic
Paying particular attention to political dynamics within the Eastern-bloc, this article seeks to outline the diplomatic context of what remains the most notorious episode of state-level doping in modern sport history: the cold war-era doping program run by the German Democratic Republic's Stasi national security police and intelligence organisation. To do so, it aims to integrate archival research on the subject with high-level geopolitical analy…
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
Literature and Sports History
From first paragraph: During the 2008 European Championships the British newspaper the Observer offered the highly renowned author novelist A.S. Byatt the opportunity to write an essay about football. Being a female and a ‘highbrow’ writer (she has won the Booker Prize), the editor may well have imagined something original and controversial. It was indeed a surprise to me that Byatt had a passion for the sport, so I paid the essay more attention …
A History of Drug Use in Sport
This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or ‘evil’ we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks. By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in the new laboratories of exercise physiologists. Still there was very li…
A Critical Assessment of John Hoberman's Histories of Drugs in Sport
John Hoberman has been one of the most prominent historians of doping and anti-doping in world sport. His writings span two decades and include two monographs: Mortal Engines (1992) and Testosterone Dreams (2005). This article focuses on those two books and offers three principal forms of criticism. Firstly, that Hoberman does not offer conceptual clarity on issues such as doping regulation/liberalization. Secondly, that a powerful implicit theme…
Testosterone Dreams
John Hoberman, Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 381. £15.95. ISBN 0–520–22151–6. Hormonal therapy has been used over the past century or so to ‘treat’ a host of physiological and psychological ‘problems’. As the subtitle of this impressively researched book tells us, the fantasies of youthfulness, sexual performance and athletic performance are implicitly bound up with the…
Sport and adventure tourism
Major sports events, image projection and the problems of 'semi-periphery
This paper explores the response of the international press to the co-hosting of the 1996 Cricket World Cup by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The event had a troubled background: the shift of power within cricket towards the subcontinent and the consequential commercialisation of the sport were causing some dissension among traditionalists. At the same time there was some instability in South Asian politics, especially between India and Pakistan …
With Political Pakistan in the Offing
This article examines the relationship between football and communal politics in India between 1887 and 1947. It argues that, while cricket was the outlet for communal antagonisms in Bombay and Delhi, it was football that played this role in Calcutta. Given the scale of violence in the 1930s and 1940s and the enormity of its consequences in terms of both political upheaval and genocide, the contribution made by sports clubs to help focus these di…
Colonial Bodies, Colonial Sport
First paragraph: As Michael Anthony Budd so aptly pointed out, 'every age has its characteristic body politics'. For imperialists of the late nineteenth century the body was a source of repression, anxiety and ambition. The male, European body was disciplined by the stresses of civilization, including organized sport, threatened by exotic climates and diseases, but positioned securely at the top of the hierarchy of global 'races'. Codes of gender…
Conclusion
Football and Politics in Bengal
First paragraph: In championing the virtues of action in his role as the British leader of imperial India, Lord Curzon concluded his speech on education with a reference to the importance attached by the colonial government to sport. Yet his remarks also captured the spirit of the age in Bengal, which was certainly a centre of action and energy at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century. Calcutta, as the administra…
Colonial Bodies, Colonial Sport
First paragraph: As Michael Anthony Budd so aptly pointed out, 'every age has its characteristic body politics'. For imperialists of the late nineteenth century the body was a source of repression, anxiety and ambition. The male, European body was disciplined by the stresses of civilization, including organized sport, threatened by exotic climates and diseases, but positioned securely at the top of the hierarchy of global 'races'. Codes of gender…
Why Lance Armstrong? Historical Context and Key Turning Points in the ‘Cleaning Up’ of Professional Cycling
The US Anti-Doping Agency published its evidence against Lance Armstrong in October 2012 after a lengthy investigation and a series of testimonies from his former US Postal Service teammates. This article aims to understand the development processes – local and global – that led eventually to his ‘confession’ in January 2013 on the Oprah Winfrey show. By taking a chronological approach from the 1980s onwards, the following key themes will be addr…
Major sports events, image projection and the problems of 'semi-periphery
This paper explores the response of the international press to the co-hosting of the 1996 Cricket World Cup by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The event had a troubled background: the shift of power within cricket towards the subcontinent and the consequential commercialisation of the sport were causing some dissension among traditionalists. At the same time there was some instability in South Asian politics, especially between India and Pakistan …
Football and Politics in Bengal
First paragraph: In championing the virtues of action in his role as the British leader of imperial India, Lord Curzon concluded his speech on education with a reference to the importance attached by the colonial government to sport. Yet his remarks also captured the spirit of the age in Bengal, which was certainly a centre of action and energy at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century. Calcutta, as the administra…
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
Introduction
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
Medicine, Sport and the Body
Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 30(18), pp. 2230–2231
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
A Critical Assessment of John Hoberman's Histories of Drugs in Sport
John Hoberman has been one of the most prominent historians of doping and anti-doping in world sport. His writings span two decades and include two monographs: Mortal Engines (1992) and Testosterone Dreams (2005). This article focuses on those two books and offers three principal forms of criticism. Firstly, that Hoberman does not offer conceptual clarity on issues such as doping regulation/liberalization. Secondly, that a powerful implicit theme…
With Political Pakistan in the Offing
This article examines the relationship between football and communal politics in India between 1887 and 1947. It argues that, while cricket was the outlet for communal antagonisms in Bombay and Delhi, it was football that played this role in Calcutta. Given the scale of violence in the 1930s and 1940s and the enormity of its consequences in terms of both political upheaval and genocide, the contribution made by sports clubs to help focus these di…
Conclusion
Football and Politics in Bengal
First paragraph: In championing the virtues of action in his role as the British leader of imperial India, Lord Curzon concluded his speech on education with a reference to the importance attached by the colonial government to sport. Yet his remarks also captured the spirit of the age in Bengal, which was certainly a centre of action and energy at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century. Calcutta, as the administra…
Contemporary developments in Indian football
During the 1990s, the modernisation of Indian football gathered pace. The sport has for a long time languished behind cricket as a source of national pride. Not since the 1960s had India's footballers achieved anything noteworthy on the international stage. During the 1970s and 1980s the game fell into a state of inertia and depression, mismanaged by unprofessional and unaccountable leaders. The popular Calcutta derby matches dominated the scene,…
Introduction
Colonial Bodies, Colonial Sport
First paragraph: As Michael Anthony Budd so aptly pointed out, 'every age has its characteristic body politics'. For imperialists of the late nineteenth century the body was a source of repression, anxiety and ambition. The male, European body was disciplined by the stresses of civilization, including organized sport, threatened by exotic climates and diseases, but positioned securely at the top of the hierarchy of global 'races'. Codes of gender…
With Political Pakistan in the Offing
This article examines the relationship between football and communal politics in India between 1887 and 1947. It argues that, while cricket was the outlet for communal antagonisms in Bombay and Delhi, it was football that played this role in Calcutta. Given the scale of violence in the 1930s and 1940s and the enormity of its consequences in terms of both political upheaval and genocide, the contribution made by sports clubs to help focus these di…
Major sports events, image projection and the problems of 'semi-periphery
This paper explores the response of the international press to the co-hosting of the 1996 Cricket World Cup by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The event had a troubled background: the shift of power within cricket towards the subcontinent and the consequential commercialisation of the sport were causing some dissension among traditionalists. At the same time there was some instability in South Asian politics, especially between India and Pakistan …
Sport and adventure tourism
Testosterone Dreams
John Hoberman, Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 381. £15.95. ISBN 0–520–22151–6. Hormonal therapy has been used over the past century or so to ‘treat’ a host of physiological and psychological ‘problems’. As the subtitle of this impressively researched book tells us, the fantasies of youthfulness, sexual performance and athletic performance are implicitly bound up with the…
A Critical Assessment of John Hoberman's Histories of Drugs in Sport
John Hoberman has been one of the most prominent historians of doping and anti-doping in world sport. His writings span two decades and include two monographs: Mortal Engines (1992) and Testosterone Dreams (2005). This article focuses on those two books and offers three principal forms of criticism. Firstly, that Hoberman does not offer conceptual clarity on issues such as doping regulation/liberalization. Secondly, that a powerful implicit theme…
A History of Drug Use in Sport
This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or ‘evil’ we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks. By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in the new laboratories of exercise physiologists. Still there was very li…
Literature and Sports History
From first paragraph: During the 2008 European Championships the British newspaper the Observer offered the highly renowned author novelist A.S. Byatt the opportunity to write an essay about football. Being a female and a ‘highbrow’ writer (she has won the Booker Prize), the editor may well have imagined something original and controversial. It was indeed a surprise to me that Byatt had a passion for the sport, so I paid the essay more attention …
The Individual and the State
The literature on East Germany, sport and performance-enhancing drugs emphasizes the power of the state in totalitarian society and the abuse of athletes. Doping is referred to as a system or machine, which was state-sponsored, mandatory, secretive, abusive and corrupt. This fits easily with both political understandings of East German society and understandings of the cultural values of sport. In this article, we map the flawed and simplistic mo…
Saint or Sinner
This article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC's fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him inthe mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended t…
The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic
Paying particular attention to political dynamics within the Eastern-bloc, this article seeks to outline the diplomatic context of what remains the most notorious episode of state-level doping in modern sport history: the cold war-era doping program run by the German Democratic Republic's Stasi national security police and intelligence organisation. To do so, it aims to integrate archival research on the subject with high-level geopolitical analy…
The doping of athletes in the former East Germany
A number of prominent writers on the social history and policy of sports doping in the former East Germany have compared that system with the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation. This article draws from a range of primary and secondary sources to discuss and challenge the Nazi comparison argument. We argue that while there were many cases of secretive abuse and experimentation that led to severe side-effects, there are also examples of ath…
Soccer in South Asia
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined
Sport Under Communism
Mike Dennis and Jonathan Grix, Sport Under Communism: Behind the East German ‘Miracle’ (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. 261. £57.50 (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-22784-2 When the United States A
Medicine, Sport and the Body
Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 30(18), pp. 2230–2231
Why Lance Armstrong? Historical Context and Key Turning Points in the ‘Cleaning Up’ of Professional Cycling
The US Anti-Doping Agency published its evidence against Lance Armstrong in October 2012 after a lengthy investigation and a series of testimonies from his former US Postal Service teammates. This article aims to understand the development processes – local and global – that led eventually to his ‘confession’ in January 2013 on the Oprah Winfrey show. By taking a chronological approach from the 1980s onwards, the following key themes will be addr…
The Health Risks of Doping during the Cold War
This article compares East Germany's Cold War-era approach to doping to that of the USA's in terms of their respective impacts on medical risk. Although deserving of criticism on many levels, the GDR doping programme featured a number of safeguards designed to minimise medical dangers. Unlike their East German counterparts, American governmental units were not directly involved in the administration of performance-enhancing substances. The US app…
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport
"The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the approach developed and implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WA…
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport
The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the approach developed and implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WAD…
The new front in the war on doping
Time Out
In the edited collection Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from a global perspective. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the effects of the global lockdown on sport during March and April 2020, when restrictions were at their most severe and the human toll at its peak in many co…
Political science (20 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (17 works) · Law (16 works) · History (15 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (14 works) · Doping in Sports (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Medicine (10 works)