Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies
Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies

Author: Jonathan Grix

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1315439824

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This is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. The volume is not specifically about mega-events or their management, but rather how such events act as a lens through which a number of important and critical questions about the decisions to host, the host nation, its society and the politics of culture, sport and leisure more broadly can be dealt with. In doing so this book seeks to build on, and out from initial work on (sports) mega events by acknowledging the major shift towards ‘emerging’ states awarded such events since 2006 and incorporating the latest advances in research that have taken place in recent years. For example, debates about what constitutes a ‘mega-event’, what is meant by a ‘legacy’, what is ‘soft power’ and so on are dealt with from a team of leading academics from a variety of academic disciplines. This book was previously published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events
Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Author: J. Grix

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1137371188

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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).

Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events
Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Author: J. Grix

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1137371188

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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).

Sport Policy
Sport Policy

Author: Nils Asle Bergsgard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0750683643

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This is a cutting-edge text which responds to the increasing importance of sport policy and its relation to public investment.

Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events
Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events

Author: Dr Valerie Viehoff

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-12-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 147244017X

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This book focuses upon the legacies sought by cities that host major sports events. It analyses how governments, the IOC and others define and measure ‘legacy’. It also focuses upon the challenges and opportunities facing future host cities of mega-events and questions what the global shift in geographical location of mega-events means for sports development and the business of sport and what are the attractions for cities seeking to harness the hosting of a mega-event, and whether there may be longer term consequences for the bidding and hosting major sporting events.

Sport Tourism
Sport Tourism

Author: Brent W. Ritchie

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2004-07-26

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1845413377

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This book examines the economic, social and environmental impacts and issues associated with the development of sport tourism globally, including the lack of research and coordination between industry and government. The book suggests the need for a more balanced analysis of the impacts and issues associated with future sport tourism development.

Mega-Event Mobilities
Mega-Event Mobilities

Author: Noel B. Salazar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1315440105

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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.

Sport and Neoliberalism
Sport and Neoliberalism

Author: Michael L. Silk

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781439905036

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Offering new approaches to thinking about political ideologies and sports, Sports and Neoliberalism explores the structures, formations, and mechanics of neoliberalism. The editors and contributors to this original and timely volume examine the intersection of sport as a national pastime, but also as an engine for urban policy - e.g., stadium building - as well as a powerful force for influencing our understanding of the relationship between culture, politics, and identity. Contributors include: Michael Atkinson, Ted Butryn, CL Cole, Norman Denzin, Grant Farred, Jessica Francombe, Caroline Fusco, Michael D. Giardina, Mick Green, Leslie Heywood, Samantha King, Lisa McDermott, Mary G. McDonald, Toby Miller, Mark Montgomery, Joshua I. Newman, Jay Scherer, Kimberly S. Schimmel, Brian Wilson.

The SAGE Handbook of Sport Management
The SAGE Handbook of Sport Management

Author: Russell Hoye

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 1473959233

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The SAGE Handbook of Sport Management draws together the best current research on the major topics relevant to the field of sports management, including leadership, gender, diversity, development, policy, tourism, and media. Edited by two of the most respected figures in the field, the handbook includes contributions from leading sport management academics from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, the UK and Europe.

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games
Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games

Author: Eva Kassens Noor

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 3030385531

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This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do not make) LA28’s argument “we have staged the Games before, we can do it again” compelling. Setting the bid’s promises into the contemporary local and global mega-event contexts, the author analyzes why LA won the bids, how those wins allowed LA to negotiate concessions with the IOC and NOC, and how legacies were planned, executed, and ultimately evolved. The author concludes with a prediction which 2028 legacy promises might and might not be fulfilled given the local and international Olympic contexts.