Australian Nationalism and Globalization: Narratives of the Nation in the 2000 Sydney Olympics' Opening Ceremony
This paper examines how the Sydney Olympics Games' opening ceremony presented images of a linear, multicultural, and chronological narrative of Australian history. However, the ceremony's attempts to manage difference produced multiple narratives of the Australian nation. Textual analysis of the Australian Channel 7 broadcast and newspaper coverage of the Olympics show how the ceremony's narrative of a united Australian nation responds to the increasing disintegration of nation-states' boundaries in the context of globalization.
Keywords: Australia; Globalization; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Olympics
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2007
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