Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean

The contributors to this book assess the achievements of the Olympic movement in Latin America and the Caribbean from a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, some more critical than others. It is a super book, full of stimulating detail and ideas, and I highly recommend it to all scholars of sport in Latin America and the Caribbean in fields from history to cultural studies, from sociology to philosophy. The book confirms the editors' proposal that “the Olympic Movement in Latin America and the Caribbean serves as an effective medium to explore the making of these societies” (p. 7). Going far beyond the flag-waving, point scoring, state-sanctioned doping, and Cold War geopolitical ideological performance of much media coverage of the Olympics, the book shows how “the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Olympic Movement has been a preferred terrain for political experimentation, struggles, and clashes; contestation of various social...