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