Mega-Event Mobilities: A Critical Analysis (Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City)
By: and and and and
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 194 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781315440101
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781315440125, 9780367667979, 9781138217539
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/17/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Taylor and Francis
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Noel B. Salazar
- Edited by:
- Christiane Timmerman
- Edited by:
- Johan Wets
- Edited by:
- Luana Gama Gato
- Edited by:
- Sarah Van den Broucke
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