Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events
Subtitle: concepts and cases
By: edited by Jonathan Grix
Series: Palgrave pivot; Palgrave pivot
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer; Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781137371171; 9781137371195; 9781137371188
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Sports tournaments; Social aspects; Political aspects; Sports and globalization; Hosting of sporting events; Sports
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From legacy to leverage  -- Laurence Chalip; title: Megas for strivers : the politics of second-order events  -- David Black; title: 'Legacy' revisited  -- Holger Preuss; title: Sports mega-events and mass participation in sport  -- Mike Weed; title: Neoliberalism and sports mega-events  -- Michael Silk; title: A tale of two Australian cities  -- Bob Stewart; title: 'Leaving Las Megas' or can sustainability ever be social? Vancouver 2010 in post-political perspective  -- Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe; title: The legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games : a qualified success?  -- Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho; title: The legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup  -- Dongfeng Liu; title: London 2012  -- John Horne and Barrie Houlihan; title: Magical thought and the legacy discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games  -- Wolfram Manzenreiter; title: Dreaming big : spectacular events and the 'world-class' city : the Commonwealth Games in Delhi  -- Amita Baviskar; title: South Africa's 'coming out party' : reflections on the significance and implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup  -- Scarlett Cornelissen; title: Qatar, global sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup  -- Paul Michael Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti; title: Russia, showcasing a 're-emerging' state? -- Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina.