The Olympic Memory
Institutional and Heritage Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12217175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Violette (0000-0001-7527-5314, Valeurs, Innovations, Politiques, Socialisations et Sports, corresponding author), Michaël Attali (0000-0001-8111-4496, Valeurs, Innovations, Politiques, Socialisations et Sports) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1066-1085 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2020.1837776 |
| OpenAlex | W3102100469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
As major sociocultural phenomena, sport and its Olympic showcase are unable to escape either the heightened subjective (re)interpretation of the past or the social frameworks structuring the extension of memory representations during the final decades of the twentieth century. In order to better understand the phenomenon, this article aims to determine the role and weight of the various actors and institutions of the Olympic Movement in safeguarding the ideology advocated by Pierre de Coubertin. From the 1950s on and at several different levels – individual and collective – the promotion of a legacy oriented towards the pedagogical principles of Olympism became a recurrent challenge in institutional Olympic space. Through the segmentation and diversity of its uses, however, this memory raises the issue of its own instrumentalization and contributes to highlighting discordant heritage schemas within a movement presented as being unitary
Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Epistemology · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Media studies · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Safeguarding · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Structuring · Anthropology · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
The Past is a Foreign Country
The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
Memory, History, Forgetting
Modernity at large
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Origins and Aspects of Olympism
Making Histories, Making Memories
Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame
Legacy’ as Managerial/Magical Discourse in Contemporary Olympic Affairs
Modern Sport, Modernism and the Cultural Manifesto
Historiography, Cultures of Remembrance and Tradition in German Sport
Sociology of Nostalgia
Is There a French Sport History? Reflections on French Sport Historiography
Museums and the 'new museology
Examining the Olympics
Framing theory
La politique de l'apolitisme. Sur l'autonomisation du champ sportif
The International Institutionalization of Sport Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |