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Mega-Event Mobilities: A Critical Analysis

Mega-Event Mobilities: A Critical Analysis

Salazar, Noel B.
Timmerman, Christiane
Wets, Johan

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

Business GeneralSports General

ISBN10: 1138217530
ISBN13: 9781138217539
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 7 2016
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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