Mega-event mobilities: a critical analysis

by Salazar, Noel B.

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Title Statements

Full title :Mega-event mobilities : a critical analysis / ed ; by Noel B. Salazar [et autres].

Summary

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders. This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the 'mobile construction' of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In particular, the book focuses on the tension between the various mobilities and immobilities that are implied in the process of constructing a mega-event. It seeks to uncover the ways in which an event is a series of fluid interactions that occur sequentially and simultaneously at multiple scales in diverse spheres of interaction. Contributions explore the dynamics through which mega-events occur, revealing the textures and nuance of the complex systems that sustain them, and the ways that events ramify throughout the international system.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:194 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138217539, 1138217530, 9781315440125, 1315440121
oclc:on1022984911

Subjects

Études diverses Gestion Héritage Olympique Jeux olympiques Management Olympic Games Olympic legacy Political planning Politique publique sports Various studies