Mega-event Mobilities: A Critical Analysis

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Full title :Mega-event Mobilities : A Critical Analysis.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):Taylor & Francis
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781315440118, 1315440113
oclc:ocn965479946
LC Classification:GV721
Dewey Decimal:306.483

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: exposing sports mega-events through a mobilities lens; Setting the scene; Mega-what?; Images, imaginaries, imagineering; Mega-mobilities; (Im)mobile legacies; Mega-events on the move; 1 Pulling back the curtain: on mobility and labour migration in the production of mega-events; Preamble; A question of mobility; Class and labour migration; Mobility as capital; Conclusion; 2 The production of the spectacle: conceptualising labour and global sports mega-events; Introduction.

The growth of the sports mega-event spectacleMega-event consultants and 'know-how' on the move; Who works for/at mega-events?; Conclusions; 3 Olympic City Los Angeles: an exploration of the urban imaginary; Introduction; Urban landscape: movements, representations and practices; Producing Olympic City Los Angeles; Conclusion; 4 Virtual mega-event imaginaries and worldmaking imperatives in Rio 2016; Worldmaking in Rio 2016, on/offline; Digital imagineering; Methodology and epistemology; The digital network and Rio 2016's imagineering; Conclusion.

5 Made in transit: mega-events and policy mobilitiesIntr…

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