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Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Concepts and Cases

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  1. Jonathan Grix

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Conceptual Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. From Legacy to Leverage

      • Laurence Chalip
      Pages 2-12

    3. Megas for Strivers: The Politics of Second-Order Events

      • David Black
      Pages 13-23

    4. ‘Legacy’ Revisited

      • Holger Preuss
      Pages 24-38

    5. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport

      • Mike Weed
      Pages 39-49

    6. Neoliberalism and Sports Mega-Events

      • Michael Silk
      Pages 50-60

  3. Previous Sports Mega-Event Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. A Tale of Two Australian Cities

      • Bob Stewart
      Pages 62-72

    3. ‘Leaving Las Megas’ or Can Sustainability Ever Be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective

      • Caitlin Pentifallo, Robert Van Wynsberghe
      Pages 73-85

    4. The Legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games: A Qualified Success?

      • Alan Bairner, Ji-Hyun Cho
      Pages 86-95

    5. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup

      • Dongfeng Liu
      Pages 96-106

    6. London 2012

      • John Horne, Barrie Houlihan
      Pages 107-117

  4. ‘Emerging States’ and Sports Mega-Events

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 118-118
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    2. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games

      • Wolfram Manzenreiter
      Pages 119-129

    3. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the ‘World-Class’ City: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi

      • Amita Baviskar
      Pages 130-141

    4. South Africa’s ‘Coming Out Party’: Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

      • Scarlett Cornelissen
      Pages 142-153

    5. Qatar, Global Sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup

      • Paul Michael Brannagan, Richard Giulianotti
      Pages 154-165

    6. Russia – Showcasing a ‘Re-Emerging’ State?

      • Oleg Golubchikov, Irina Slepukhina
      Pages 166-177

  5. Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?

    1. Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?

      • Jonathan Grix
      Pages 178-179
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About this book

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).

Reviews

"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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Jonathan Grix

About the editor

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

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