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Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Concepts and Cases

Edited by J. Grix
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 18th Apr 2014
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 16mm
Weight: 412g
ISBN-10: 113737117X
ISBN-13: 9781137371171
Barcode No: 9781137371171
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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).

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"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