CiNii Books - Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events : concepts and cases

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- Grix, Jonathan

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Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events : concepts and cases

edited by Jonathan Grix

（Palgrave pivot）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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).

Table of Contents

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

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