Geopolitics, Genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014

Authors

  • Andrew Foxall University of Oxford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v14i2.1192

Abstract

This Commentary explores the geopolitics of the modern Olympic Games. It suggests that far from being non-political, as the Games are often portrayed by the International Olympic Committee, the Olympics are characterised throughout their modern history by various expressions of statecraft and stagecraft. Despite this problematic history, this Commentary questions why the 2014 Winter Olympic Games were awarded to Sochi, Russia and contextualises the argument in the Circassian ‘genocide’ of 1864.

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Published

2015-08-17

How to Cite

Foxall, A. (2015). Geopolitics, Genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(2), 622–630. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v14i2.1192

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2015): Themed Sections: (1) Civic Geographies (2) Migration and Activism | Various Articles

Section

Commentary

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