Mega-Event Mobilities A Critical Analysis Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City Series
Coordonnateurs : Salazar Noel B., Timmerman Christiane, Wets Johan, Gama Gato Luana, Van den Broucke Sarah
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.
Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Christiane Timmerman is Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and director of the Centre of Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS).
Johan Wets is Research Manager Migration of HIVA, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Luana Gama Gato is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Leuven.
Sarah Van den Broucke is Research Associate at HIVA, University of Leuven. She specialises in international migration and policy research.
Date de parution : 09-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Mega-Event Mobilities :
Mots-clés :
IOC; Mega-event Industry; London 2012; Rio; Olympic Games; Sport Mega-events; Mega-event Mobilities; Van Den Broucke; LOCOG; Mega-event’s Organisation; International Olympic Committee; ETI Base Code; Urban Imaginary; Mega-event Planning; Policy Commodities; Policy Mobilities; Host City Residents; Men’s Football World Cup; Host City; Play Fair; ETI Code; CPF; Olympic Caravan; Olympic City; Low Skilled Migrant Labour