South Africa's World Cup
Subtitle: a legacy for whom?
By: edited by Eddie Cottle
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781869142162
Subjects: Tournaments; Fussballweltmeisterschaft (2010); World Cup (Soccer) (2010); Sozioökonomischer Wandel; Soccer; Economic aspects
Description: "This groundbreaking book provides a critically informed analysis of the impact and legacy of mega-sporting events through the lens of South Africa's 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and its associated developmental paradigm. It challenges mainstream thinking and mega-event praise singers by providing concrete evidence to show that this sporting spectacular was little more than a front for massive accumulation and extraction of wealth, alongside increased sporting and socio-economic inequality."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: FIFA and the sports-accumulation complex / Dale T. McKinley; title: Economic promises and pitfalls of South Africa's World Cup / Patrick Bond and Eddie Cottle; title: Their cup runneth over : construction companies and the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Michelle Taal; title: Scoring an own goal? : the construction workers' 2010 World Cup strike / Eddie Cottle; title: The trade union legacy of the 2010 World Cup : international solidarity revitalised / Vasco Pedrina and Joachim Merz; title: Informal traders and the struggle to trade / Pat Horn; title: Lies, misrepresentation and unfulfilled expectations : sex work and the 2010 Soccer World Cup / Vivienne Mentor-Lalu; title: Washing FIFA green : the World Cup and global warming / Tristen Taylor; title: Soccer City : who drank all the beer from the calabash? / Mondi Hlatshwayo; title: Green Point Stadium : FIFA's legacy of unfair play / Monli Mhatshwayo and Michael Blake; title: Tall tales : dissecting the urban legend of the developmental legacy of Durban's Moses Madhida Stadium / Aisha Bahadur; title: Mbombela : corruption, murder, false promises and resistance / Dale T. McKinley (with African Eye News Service); title: Building coliseums, living in shacks : construction workers in the shadow of the world-class city / Tony Roshan Samara.