Blackwell/The Sociological review, Malden, MA [etc.]
Verschenen
2006
ISBN
9781405152907
1405152907
9781405152907
Kenmerken
199 pagina's
Aantekening
Met index, lit. opg
Part 1: Sports mega-events, modernity and capitalist economies. 2. Mega-events and modernity revisited: Maurice Roche. 3. The Economic Impact of Major Sport Events: Chris Gratton, Simon Shibli, and Richard Coleman 4. Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events: C. Michael Hall . Part 2: The Glocal Politics of Sports Mega-events 5. Underestimated costs and overestimated benefits? Comparing the outcomes of sports mega-events in Canada and Japan: David Whitson and John Horne. 6. Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight: China's national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad: Xin Xu 7. The 2010 Football World Cup as a political construct: the challenge of making good on an African promise: Scarlett Cornelissen and Kamilla Swart.Part 3: Power, spectacle and the city. 8. UEFA Euro 2004 Portugal: The social construction of a sports mega- event and spectacle: Salomé Marivoet. 9. Sports spectacles, uniformities and the search for identity in late modern Japan: Wolfram Manzenreiter. 10. Deep play: Sports mega-events and urban social conditions in the U.S.A: Kimberly Schimmel. 11. Olympic Urbanism and Olympic Villages: Planning strategies in olympic host cities, London 1908 - London 2012: Francesc Muñoz