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Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events : concepts and cases / edited by Jonathan Grix.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave pivotPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 113737117X
  • 9781137371171
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 23
LOC classification:
  • GV712 .L48 2014
Contents:
From legacy to leverage / Laurence Chalip -- Megas for strivers : the politics of second-order events / David Black -- 'Legacy' revisited / Holger Preuss -- Sports mega-events and mass participation in sport / Mike Weed -- Neoliberalism and sports mega-events / Michael Silk -- A tale of two Australian cities / Bob Stewart -- 'Leaving Las Megas' or can sustainability ever be social? Vancouver 2010 in post-political perspective / Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe -- The legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games : a qualified success? / Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho -- The legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup / Dongfeng Liu -- London 2012 / John Horne and Barrie Houlihan -- Magical thought and the legacy discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Dreaming big : spectacular events and the 'world-class' city : the Commonwealth Games in Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- South Africa's 'coming out party' : reflections on the significance and implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Qatar, global sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup / Paul Michael Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti -- Russia, showcasing a 're-emerging' state? / Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From legacy to leverage / Laurence Chalip -- Megas for strivers : the politics of second-order events / David Black -- 'Legacy' revisited / Holger Preuss -- Sports mega-events and mass participation in sport / Mike Weed -- Neoliberalism and sports mega-events / Michael Silk -- A tale of two Australian cities / Bob Stewart -- 'Leaving Las Megas' or can sustainability ever be social? Vancouver 2010 in post-political perspective / Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe -- The legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games : a qualified success? / Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho -- The legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup / Dongfeng Liu -- London 2012 / John Horne and Barrie Houlihan -- Magical thought and the legacy discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Dreaming big : spectacular events and the 'world-class' city : the Commonwealth Games in Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- South Africa's 'coming out party' : reflections on the significance and implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Qatar, global sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup / Paul Michael Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti -- Russia, showcasing a 're-emerging' state? / Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina.

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