In the face of China’s repression and human rights abuses, a scholar asks whether cheerful media coverage of the Beijing Olympics in February 2022 signals complicity with Chinese propaganda.
Articles on 1936 Berlin Olympics
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While governments and some athletes are opposed to a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, failing to take a stand against China’s human rights record has consequences.
The controversial German film-maker was celebrated for her groundbreaking work, but the fact remains she was a prominent Nazi propagandist.
As Hitler showed in 1936, there’s nothing like a massive sporting spectacle to promote your regime.
The Olympic Games are a theatre — sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, reality TV, morality play or soap opera — where geopolitical, social and technological dramas are played out.
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Visiting Fellow in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor, Sport and Physical Activity, University of Manitoba
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Senior Lecturer in Modern German History, University of Huddersfield