Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases

  • Jonathan Grix
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xix
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  2. Conceptual Issues

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. From Legacy to Leverage
      Laurence Chalip
      Pages 2-12
    3. Megas for Strivers: The Politics of Second-Order Events
      David Black
      Pages 13-23
    4. ‘Legacy’ Revisited
      Holger Preuss
      Pages 24-38
    5. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport
      Mike Weed
      Pages 39-49
    6. Neoliberalism and Sports Mega-Events
      Michael Silk
      Pages 50-60

  3. Previous Sports Mega-Event Strategies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 61-61
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    2. A Tale of Two Australian Cities
      Bob Stewart
      Pages 62-72
    3. ‘Leaving Las Megas’ or Can Sustainability Ever Be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective
      Caitlin Pentifallo, Robert Van Wynsberghe
      Pages 73-85
    4. The Legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games: A Qualified Success?
      Alan Bairner, Ji-Hyun Cho
      Pages 86-95
    5. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup
      Dongfeng Liu
      Pages 96-106
    6. London 2012
      John Horne, Barrie Houlihan
      Pages 107-117

  4. ‘Emerging States’ and Sports Mega-Events

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 118-118
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    2. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games
      Wolfram Manzenreiter
      Pages 119-129
    3. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the ‘World-Class’ City: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi
      Amita Baviskar
      Pages 130-141
    4. South Africa’s ‘Coming Out Party’: Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
      Scarlett Cornelissen
      Pages 142-153
    5. Qatar, Global Sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cup
      Paul Michael Brannagan, Richard Giulianotti
      Pages 154-165
    6. Russia – Showcasing a ‘Re-Emerging’ State?
      Oleg Golubchikov, Irina Slepukhina
      Pages 166-177

  5. Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?

    1. Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?
      Jonathan Grix
      Pages 178-179

About this book

Introduction

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).

Keywords

Sports Mega-Events Soft Power Leveraging Legacies Nation Branding Public Diplomacy participation politics Sport sustainability

Editors and affiliations

  • Jonathan Grix
    • 1
  1. 1.University of BirminghamUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371188
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Pivot, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Social Sciences Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-47548-3
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-37118-8
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