Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies

ISBN-13: 9780367109271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 142 str.

Jonathan Grix

Opis

This volume offers an up-to-date, multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. With a focus on a variety of critical questions about the host nation, its society and the politics of culture, sport and leisure, this book acknowledges the major shift to emerging states being awarded such events.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. What makes an event a mega-event? Definitions and sizes 2. A framework for identifying the legacies of a mega sport event 3. Towards a mega-event legacy framework 4. The psycho-social impact of the Olympics as urban festival: a leisure perspective 5. For the benefit of all? Developing a critical perspective in mega-event leverage 6. Soft power and soft disempowerment: Qatar, global sport and football’s 2022 World Cup finals 7. Embracing the games? Leverage and legacy of London 2012 Olympics at the sub-regional level by means of strategic partnerships 8. Leveraging mega-events beyond the host nation: a case study of the 2010 FIFA World Cup African Legacy Programme in Cameroon and Nigeria 9. Leveraging mass participation events for sustainable health legacy

O autorze

Jonathan Grix has published widely on sport politics and policy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics published by Routledge and the Director of the Sport Policy Centre in the University of Birmingham’s School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.