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Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events concepts and cases /

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting...

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Group Author: Grix, Jonathan
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Hosting of sporting events > Economic aspects
Hosting of sporting events > Social aspects
Hosting of sporting events > Political aspects
Sociology: sport & leisure
International relations
Sport & leisure industries
Sporting events & management
Society
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137371188
Summary: This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).
"International sports mega-events and their legacies are much debated features of contemporary culture. In this book many of the main writers in the field provide valuable new and accessible studies of this phenomenon. This book deserves to be widely read." -Maurice C. Roche, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137371171.
Carrier Form: 206 p. : 8 figures, 8.
ISBN: 9781137371188 :
1137371188 :
CLC: G80-05
Contents: PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. From Legacy to Leverage-- Laurence Chalip 2. Megas for Strivers: the Politics of Second Order Events-- David Black 3. 'Legacy' Revisited-- Holger Preuss 4. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport-- Mike Weed 5. Neo-Liberalism and Sports Mega-Events-- Michael Silk PART II: PREVIOUS SPORTS MEGA-EVENT STRATEGIES 6. Sydney 2000 and Melbourne 2006: A Tale of Two Australian Cities-- Bob Stewart 7. 'Leaving Las Magas', or Can Sustainability ever be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective-- Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe 8. Seoul 199

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