Mega-event mobilities : a critical analysis / / edited by Noel B. Salazar, Christiane Timmerman, Johan Wets, Luana Gama Gato, Sarah Van den Broucke

• Autore: Salazar Noel B. <1973->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 111
• Soggetto topico: Events (Philosophy)
• Persona (resp. second.): SalazarNoel B. <1973->; TimmermanChristiane; WetsJohan; Gama GatoLuana; Van den BrouckeSarah
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: exposing sports mega-events through a mobilities lens -- Setting the scene -- Mega-what? -- Images, imaginaries, imagineering -- Mega-mobilities -- (Im)mobile legacies -- Mega-events on the move -- 1 Pulling back the curtain: on mobility and labour migration in the production of mega-events -- Preamble -- A question of mobility -- Class and labour migration -- Mobility as capital -- Conclusion -- 2 The production of the spectacle: conceptualising labour and global sports mega-events -- Introduction -- The growth of the sports mega-event spectacle -- Mega-event consultants and 'know-how' on the move -- Who works for/at mega-events? -- Conclusions -- 3 Olympic City Los Angeles: an exploration of the urban imaginary -- Introduction -- Urban landscape: movements, representations and practices -- Producing Olympic City Los Angeles -- Conclusion -- 4 Virtual mega-event imaginaries and worldmaking imperatives in Rio 2016 -- Worldmaking in Rio 2016, on/offline -- Digital imagineering -- Methodology and epistemology -- The digital network and Rio 2016's imagineering -- Conclusion -- 5 Made in transit: mega-events and policy mobilities -- Introduction -- Policy mobilities and economic geographies of knowledge -- Made in transit -- Technology protocols: from BIT'92 to smart mega-events -- Design guidelines: Look of the Games -- Technical standards: ISO 20121 -- Production through mobility -- Conclusion -- 6 The relay of mega-event activism: why global organising bodies need to be targeted -- Introduction -- The value of mega-events as a campaign platform -- Olympic 'firsts' and (partial) campaign successes at London 2012 -- Relaying the gains: the bar raised or battles repeated? -- Conclusion. ; 7 Sport mega-events as mega-projects: interaction effects and local mobilities -- Framing and interaction: a symbolic interactionist perspective -- Mega-events as mega-projects: the Olympics as mega-project -- The Olympics as local mega-project: a mobilities perspective -- Mobility intrusion -- Perceptual or cognitive mobility -- Two cases: Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 -- Conclusion -- 8 Leveraging the Olympic Games: universal and local imaginaries and mobilities -- Introduction -- The Olympic Games as a mega-event: evoking imaginaries and mobility on a mass scale -- Leveraging the Games: resources, interactions and roles -- Value co-creation as a form of mobility -- Conclusion -- 9 An agenda for future mega-event research -- Introduction -- Imaginaries, media and mega-events -- Human rights and mega-events -- Labour mobilities and mega-events -- Gender and mega-events -- Conclusion -- Afterword: mobilities and mega-events: four challenges, one warning -- Mobility and immobility in mega-events: two sides of the same coin -- Challenge 1: Why do certain people and things become mobile, while others do not? -- Challenge 2: What type of mobility for what kind of phenomenon? -- Challenge 3: Who benefits from mobility? -- Challenge 4: Only the Olympics, only now? -- Warning: What is mobility, and what is it not? -- Keep on moving! -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mega-event mobilities
• ISBN: 1-315-44010-5; 1-315-44012-1; 1-315-44011-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154866603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II