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Mega-Event Mobilities

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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
December 7th, 2016
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Christiane Timmerman
  • Edited by Johan Wets
  • Edited by Luana Gama Gato
  • Edited by Noel B. Salazar
  • Edited by Sarah Van den Broucke
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
206
Dimensions
156x234x18
ISBN-13
9781138217539
Product ID
25549374

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