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Sports mega-events : social scientific analyses of a global phenomenon / edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter.

Contributor(s): Horne, John, 1955- | Manzenreiter, WolframMaterial type: TextTextReference number: 2006019738Series: Sociological review monographPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review, 2006. Description: 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781405152907; 1405152907Subject(s): Sports tournaments -- Social aspects -- Case studies | Sports -- Sociological aspects -- Case studiesDDC classification: 306.4/83 LOC classification: GV712 | .S66 2006Other classification: 76.11 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
An introduction to the sociology of sports mega-events / John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter -- pt. 1. Sports mega-events, modernity and capitalist economies -- Mega-events and modernity revisited : globalization and the case of the Olympics / Maurice Roche -- The economic impact of major sports events : a review of ten events in the UK / Chris Gratton, Simon Shibli, Richard Coleman -- Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events : the thin policies of competitiveness within the hard outcomes of neoliberalism / C. Michael Hall -- pt. 2. The glocal politics of sports mega-events -- Underestimated costs and overestimated benefits? : comparing the outcomes of sports mega-events in Canada and Japan / David Whitson, John Horne -- Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight : China's national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad / Xin Xu -- The 2010 football World Cup as a political construct : the challenge of making good on an African promise / Scarlett Cornelissen, Kamilla Swart -- pt. 3. Sports mega-events, power, spectacle and the city -- UEFA Euro 2004 Portugal : the social construction of a sports mega-event and spectacle / Salomé Marivoet -- Sport spectacles, uniformities and the search for identity in late modern Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Deep play : sports mega-events and urban social conditions in the USA / Kimberly S. Schimmel -- Olympic urbanism and Olympic villages : planning strategies in Olympic host cities, London 1908 to London 2012 / Francesc Muñoz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to the sociology of sports mega-events / John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter -- pt. 1. Sports mega-events, modernity and capitalist economies -- Mega-events and modernity revisited : globalization and the case of the Olympics / Maurice Roche -- The economic impact of major sports events : a review of ten events in the UK / Chris Gratton, Simon Shibli, Richard Coleman -- Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events : the thin policies of competitiveness within the hard outcomes of neoliberalism / C. Michael Hall -- pt. 2. The glocal politics of sports mega-events -- Underestimated costs and overestimated benefits? : comparing the outcomes of sports mega-events in Canada and Japan / David Whitson, John Horne -- Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight : China's national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad / Xin Xu -- The 2010 football World Cup as a political construct : the challenge of making good on an African promise / Scarlett Cornelissen, Kamilla Swart -- pt. 3. Sports mega-events, power, spectacle and the city -- UEFA Euro 2004 Portugal : the social construction of a sports mega-event and spectacle / Salomé Marivoet -- Sport spectacles, uniformities and the search for identity in late modern Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Deep play : sports mega-events and urban social conditions in the USA / Kimberly S. Schimmel -- Olympic urbanism and Olympic villages : planning strategies in Olympic host cities, London 1908 to London 2012 / Francesc Muñoz.

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