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This volume€explores sports mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them. Our premise is that sports mega-events are not simply sporting or cultural phenomena. They are also political and economic events, characterised by the generation and projection of symbolic meanings ₆ most obviously over the nature of statehood, economic power, and of collective cultural identity ₆ and by social conflict, especially over land use, and over the extent and contours of public spending commitments. Because of their peculiar spatial and temporal organization, they raise questions about the relationships between global cultural and economic flows and particular local and national spaces. Because of their evolutionary characteristics, they ask us to consider not simply the time of the event but of the effects of the event on the long-term direction, implementation, and consequences of public policy.

Table of Contents:

• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Sports Mega-Events, Sustainable Development, and Civil Societies; G. Hayes€ & J. Karamichas
• The Four 'Cs' of Sports Mega-Events: Capitalism, Connections, Citizenship and Contradictions; J. Horne
• Civilizing Beijing: Social Beautification, Civility and Citizenship at the 2008 Olympics; A. Broudehoux
• Istanbul's Olympic Challenge: A Passport for Europe?; J. Polo
• 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; H. Dauncey
• The Role of Environmental Issues in Mega-Events Planning and Management Processes: Which Factors Count?; P. Caratti€ & €L. Ferraguto
• Sustainability as Global Norm: The Greening of Meag-Events in China; A. Mol€ & L. Zhang
• Olympic Games as an Opportunity for the Ecological Modernization of the Host Nation: The Cases of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; J. Karamichas
• What Happens When Olympic Bids Fail? Sustainable Development and Paris 2012; G. Hayes
• Olympic Games, Conflicts and Social Movements: The Case of Torino 2006; E. Dansero, B. Corpo, Al. Mela & I. Ropolo
• Vancouver 2010: The Saga of Eagleride Bluffs; D. Whitson
• Resisting the Torch; X. Renou
• Conclusion: Sports Mega-Events: Disputed Places, Structural Contradictions and Critical Moments; G. Hayes€ & J. Karamichas
• Bibliography
• Index.

Contributors:

Hayes, Graeme, 1967-

Karamichas, John, 1975-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Olympic games, mega-events and civil societies (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 — ISBN 9780230244177; LCCN 2011043416; OCLC Number 748328926)

Related Series:

Global culture and sport

Subjects:

Nationalism and sports — Cross-cultural studies

Olympics — Social aspects

Special events — Cross-cultural studies

Sports and globalization — Cross-cultural studies

Sports tournaments — Cross-cultural studies

Nationalism and sports

Olympics

Special events

Sports and globalization

Sports tournaments

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-285) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations, map.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV712 .O59 2012eb

ISBNs:

0230244173 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9780230244177 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9786613381293
6613381292

OCLC Numbers:

1053100952
772516400 [Invalid]