Grix Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Concepts and Cases
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-37118-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, eBook

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).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grix, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 1998; Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho 9. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup; Dongfeng Liu 10. London 2012; John Horne and Barrie Houlihan PART III: 'EMERGING STATES' AND SPORTS MEGA-EVENTS 11. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games; Wolfram Manzenreiter 12. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the 'World-Class' City - The Commonwealth Games in Delhi; Amita Baviskar 13. South Africa's 'Coming Out Party': Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup; Scarlett Cornelissen 14. Qatar, Global Sport, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup; Paul Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti 15. Russia: Showcasing a 'Re-Emerging' State?; Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK

Amita Baviskar, The Institute of Economic Growth, India

David Black, Dalhousie University, Canada

Paul Michael Brannagan, Loughborough University, UK

Laurence Chalip, University of Illinois, USA

Ji-Hyun Cho, Yong In University, South Korea

Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Liu Dongfeng, Shanghai University of Sport, China

Richard Giulianotti, Loughborough University, UK

Oleg Golubchikov, Cardiff University, UK

John Horne, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University, UK

Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, Austria

Caitlin Pentifallo, University of British Columbia, Canada

Michael Silk, University of Bath, UK

Bob Stewart, Victoria University, Australia

Holger Preuss, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany

Irina Slepukhina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Renata Toledo, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

Mike Weed, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Robert VanWynsberghe, University of British Columbia, Canada