Host cities and the Olympics : an interactionist approach
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Host cities and the Olympics : an interactionist approach
（Routledge research in sport, culture and society, 15）
Routledge, 2014, c2012
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Originally published: Abingdon : Routledge, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-172) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and players in the Olympics as a drama.
Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is shown how the social media and shifts in public opinion reflected interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies, event studies or urban sociology.
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1. Building an Interpretive Model: From Macro to Micro Chapter 2. The Olympics as Dramaturgy Chapter 3. Framing: Interpreting the Olympic Projec Chapter 4. The Public Realm Chapter 5. The Host City as A Symbolic Field Chapter 6. The Social Media and Urban Interaction Chapter 7. The Consequences of Interaction: Public Opinion and the Olympics Chapter 8. Conclusion
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