Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
Jonathan Grix
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Description for Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
Hardcover. This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil). Editor(s): Grix, Jonathan. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSP; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).
This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137371171
SKU
V9781137371171
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99-15
About Jonathan Grix
Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK Amita Baviskar, The Institute of Economic Growth, India David Black, Dalhousie University, Canada Paul Michael Brannagan, Loughborough University, UK Laurence Chalip, University of Illinois, USA Ji-Hyun Cho, Yong In University, South Korea Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Liu Dongfeng, Shanghai University of Sport, China Richard Giulianotti, ... Read more
Reviews for Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
"International sports mega-events and their legacies are much debated features of contemporary culture. In this book many of the main writers in the field provide valuable new and accessible studies of this phenomenon. This book deserves to be widely read." -Maurice C. Roche, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK