Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies

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Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies explores the multifaceted impact of mega-events, particularly sports-related, on host nations and societies. Rather than focusing solely on event management, it uses these high-profile occasions to examine critical questions around the politics of culture, sport, and leisure. The book highlights the growing prominence of emerging nations as hosts since 2006 and incorporates contemporary research and debates on concepts such as 'mega-events', 'legacy', and 'soft power'. Featuring contributions from leading academics across disciplines, it provides a broad and insightful analysis of these global phenomena.
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This volume is ideal for students, scholars, and professionals interested in sports studies, cultural politics, event management, and international relations. Its interdisciplinary approach offers valuable perspectives for those examining the societal and political dimensions of hosting mega-events.

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.

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This is a multidisciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general, and sports mega-events in particular. The volume is not specifically about mega-events or their management, but rather how such events act as a lens through which a number of important and critical questions about the decisions to host, the host nation, its society, and the politics of culture, sport, and leisure more broadly can be dealt with.

In doing so, Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies seeks to build on, and out from, initial work on (sports) mega-events by acknowledging the major shift towards ‘emerging’ states awarded such events since 2006, and incorporating the latest advances in research that have taken place in recent years. For example, debates about what constitutes a ‘mega-event’, what is meant by a ‘legacy’, what is ‘soft power’, and so on are dealt with by a team of leading academics from a variety of academic disciplines.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367109271

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Jonathan Grix

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 142

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Sports

About the Author

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.