Hayes, Graeme
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
1. Introduction: Sports Mega-Events, Sustainable Development and Civil Societies
Graeme Hayes, John Karamichas
Part I. Sports Mega-Events, Citizenship, and Civil Society
2. The Four ‘Cs’ of Sports Mega-Events: Capitalism, Connections, Citizenship and Contradictions
John Horne
3. Civilizing Beijing: Social Beautification, Civility and Citizenship at the 2008 Olympics
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
4. Istanbul’s Olympic Challenge: A Passport for Europe?
Jean-François Polo
5. The Failed Bid for Lyon ’68, and France’s Winter Olympics from Grenoble ’68 to Annecy 2018: French Politics, Civil Society and Olympic Mega-Events
Hugh Dauncey
Part II. Mega-Events, Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Development
6. The Role of Environmental Issues in Mega-Events Planning and Management Processes: Which Factors Count?
Pietro Caratti, Ludovico Ferraguto
7. Sustainability as Global Norm: The Greening of Mega-Events in China
Arthur P. J. Mol, Lei Zhang
8. Olympic Games as an Opportunity for the Ecological Modernization of the Host Nation: The Cases of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004
John Karamichas
9. What Happens When Olympic Bids Fail? Sustainable Development and Paris 2012
Graeme Hayes
Part III. Constructing Civic Resistances to Mega-Events
10. Olympic Games, Conflicts and Social Movements: The Case of Torino 2006
Egidio Dansero, Barbara Corpo, Alfredo Mela, Irene Ropolo
11. Vancouver 2010: The Saga of Eagleridge Bluffs
David Whitson
12. Resisting the Torch
Xavier Renou
13. Conclusion. Sports Mega-Events: Disputed Places, Systemic Contradictions and Critical Moments
Graeme Hayes, John Karamichas
Keywords: Social Sciences, Environmental Sociology, Social Policy, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Popular Science in Sports, Sociology, general, Environment, general
- Editor
- Hayes, Graeme
- Karamichas, John
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Global Culture and Sport
- Page amount
- 305 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230359185
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-31881-0