Grix, Jonathan
Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
Part I. Conceptual Issues
1. From Legacy to Leverage
Laurence Chalip
2. Megas for Strivers: The Politics of Second-Order Events
David Black
3. ‘Legacy’ Revisited
Holger Preuss
4. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport
Mike Weed
5. Neoliberalism and Sports Mega-Events
Michael Silk
Part II. Previous Sports Mega-Event Strategies
6. A Tale of Two Australian Cities
Bob Stewart
7. ‘Leaving Las Megas’ or Can Sustainability Ever Be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective
Caitlin Pentifallo, Robert Wynsberghe
8. The Legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games: A Qualified Success?
Alan Bairner, Ji-Hyun Cho
9. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup
Dongfeng Liu
10. London 2012
John Horne, Barrie Houlihan
Part III. ‘Emerging States’ and Sports Mega-Events
11. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games
Wolfram Manzenreiter
12. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the ‘World-Class’ City: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi
Amita Baviskar
13. South Africa’s ‘Coming Out Party’: Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Scarlett Cornelissen
14. Qatar, Global Sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Paul Michael Brannagan, Richard Giulianotti
15. Russia – Showcasing a ‘Re-Emerging’ State?
Oleg Golubchikov, Irina Slepukhina
16. Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?
Jonathan Grix
Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Political Science, Social Policy, Services, Popular Science in Sports
- Utgivare
- Grix, Jonathan
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 203 sidor
- Kategori
- Samhälle
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137371188
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-47548-3