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Title:

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

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sports tournaments--Social aspects--Case studies.
Sports--Sociological aspects--Case studies.
Tournois (Sports et jeux)--Aspect social--Cas, Études de.
Sports--Aspect sociologique--Cas, Études de.
Sport.
Evenementen.
Sociale aspecten.

Other Authors:

Horne, John, 1955-
Manzenreiter, Wolfram.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

pt. 3. Sports mega-events, power, spectacle and the city -- pt. 1. Sports mega-events, modernity and capitalist economies -- Olympic urbanism and Olympic villages : planning strategies in Olympic host cities, London 1908 to London 2012 / Francesc Muñoz. 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 global politics of sports mega-events -- Underestimated costs and overestimated benefits? Comparing the outcomes of sports mega-events in Canada and Japan / David Whitson and 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 and 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.

Series:

The Sociological review monographs

ISBN:

9781405152907 (pbk.)
1405152907 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2006019738

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)