Sports Mega-Events : Social Scientific

This volume offers a distinctive and timely comparative analysis of the sociological, economic, and political significance of bids for, and the hosting of, sports mega-events throughout the world. A collection by leading international scholars examining sports mega-events, such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. Analyses the sociological, economic, and political significance of bids for, and the hosting of, sports mega-events. Explores the costs and benefits incurred by host cities. Focuses on both advanced and developing cities throughout Europe, Asia, North America, Australasia, and South Africa.

John Horne is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Leisure at the University of Edinburgh. He has published many articles and book chapters on sport, leisure and popular culture and is the author of Sport in Consumer Culture (2006) and co-author of Understanding Sport (1999, with Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel). He is the co-editor of Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (1987, Sociological Review Monograph No. 33, with David Jary and Alan Tomlinson), Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (2002, with Wolfram Manzenreiter) and Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People’s Game in China, Japan and Korea (2004, with Wolfram Manzenreiter). He has also edited two Leisure Studies Association publications: Leisure Cultures, Consumption and Commodification (2001) and Masculinities: Leisure Cultures, Identities and Consumption (2000, with Scott Fleming).

Wolfram Manzenreiter is Assistant Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Vienna University, where he lectures on modern Japanese society. His major research interests are concerned with the social and economic implications of sport and popular culture in contemporary Japan. He is author of several books and articles on popular culture, leisure and sport in Japan. Currently he is working on a new book entitled Sport and Nation in Japan. In addition to the co-edited volumes with John Horne, Football Goes East (2004) and Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (2002), his recent works include the monographs The Social Construction of Japanese Mountaineering (2000), and Pachinko Monogatari: Japan's Gambling Industry (1998), both published in German.

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An introduction to the sociology of sports mega-events

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John Horne

Wolfram Manzenreiter

Part 1: Sports Mega-Events, Modernity and Capitalist Economies

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Mega-events and modernity revisited: globalization and the case of the Olympics

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Maurice Roche

The economic impact of major sports events: a review of ten events in the UK

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(18)

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

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C. Michael Hall

Part 2: The Glocal Politics of Sports Mega-Events

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Underestimated costs and overestimated benefits? Comparing the outcomes of sports mega-events in Canada and Japan

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(17)

David Whitson

John Horne

Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight: China's national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad

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(18)

Xin Xu

The 2010 Football World Cup as a political construct: the challenge of making good on an African promise

108

(17)

Scarlett Cornelissen

Kamilla Swart

Part 3: Sports Mega-Events, Power, Spectacle and the City

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UEFA Euro 2004™ Portugal: The social construction of a sports mega-event and spectacle

127

(17)

Salome Marivoet

Sport spectacles, uniformities and the search for identity in late modern Japan

144

(16)

Wolfram Manzenreiter

Deep play: sports mega-events and urban social conditions in the USA

160

(15)

Kimberly S. Schimmel

Olympic urbanism and Olympic Villages: planning strategies in Olympic host cities, London 1908 to London 2012

175

(13)

Francesc Munoz

Notes on contributors

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Index

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Sports Mega-Events : Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon

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