Bread and circus or Pan with bread crumbs?

This article, which is based on archival research as well as a review of the literature, discussesthe “social legacy” strategy in the case of the Pan-American Games in Rio in 2007. It isevident that in this multi-sport megaevent olympianism was taken over by the neoliberalideal of society, since the...

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Autores principales: Duarte, Fabrício, Graciolli, Edilson
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Lutas Sociais. ISSN 1415-854X 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/ls/article/view/18500
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-027&d=article18500oai
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Sumario:This article, which is based on archival research as well as a review of the literature, discussesthe “social legacy” strategy in the case of the Pan-American Games in Rio in 2007. It isevident that in this multi-sport megaevent olympianism was taken over by the neoliberalideal of society, since the event attempted to foment a volunteer culture. The philosophy ofolympianism, in promoting volunteer work, a modality that takes precarious employment toan extreme by avoiding any employment tie or the payment of a salary, should be understoodas an instrument of class domination, since capital is appropriating part of the value createdby the labor force.