Confronting the Olympic Paradox
Modernity and Environment at a Crossroads in Downtown Tokyo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2134673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Matanle (0000-0002-8600-3856, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466020029447 |
| OpenAlex | W3034415561 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The 2020 Summer Olympics will be the hottest ever; due to a combination of climate change and scheduling them when Tokyo is at its most sweltering. Cities have been transformed, with the Games used by governments to unite citizens behind patriotic visions of national success and project a modernist image of a city and nation on the leading edge of global progress. This is the Olympic paradox-being uniquely symbolic of modernity while also complicit in modernity's outcome, including the systematic depletion of the Earth's resources, our destruction of its habitats, and pollution of the biosphere with emissions and effluents which together threaten the sustainability of life on Earth
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Downtown · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
The Great Acceleration
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
The field of Cultural Production
Mediating the Asian Olympics
Catching up
The Seoul Olympics
The Anthropocene
History and Biology in the Anthropocene
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |