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Living with London's Olympics: An Ethnography (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology)
Iain Lindsay
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Description for Living with London's Olympics: An Ethnography (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology)
Hardcover. The quadrennial summer Olympic Games produces the world's biggest single-city cultural event. Drawing on ethnographic work around the London 2012 Games, this book contrasts the rhetoric and reality of mega-event delivery and shows that the notions of beneficial Olympic legacies and delivery benefits for host communities are, for most, unobtainable. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each installment. This is due to the fact that underpinning the 17 days of spectacular sporting events is approximately a decade worth of planning, preparing, and politicking. It is during this decade that prospective host cities must plan and win their bids before embarking upon seven years of urban upheaval and social transformation in order to stage the world's premier sporting event. This book ... Read more
The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each installment. This is due to the fact that underpinning the 17 days of spectacular sporting events is approximately a decade worth of planning, preparing, and politicking. It is during this decade that prospective host cities must plan and win their bids before embarking upon seven years of urban upheaval and social transformation in order to stage the world's premier sporting event. This book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137456724
SKU
V9781137456724
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About Iain Lindsay
Iain Lindsay is Visiting Lecturer in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University, UK.
Reviews for Living with London's Olympics: An Ethnography (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology)
“Living with London’s Olympics is a necessary, eye-opening and highly readable book … . Taking a critical micro-level view on the contestations, ambiguities and contradictions of the Olympic delivery, it provides a reversal of this massive spectacle. As such the book could be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars well beyond the subdiscipline of urban anthropology.” ... Read more