Acknowledgements. 1. An introduction to the sociology of sports mega-events: John Horne (University Edinburgh, UK) and Wolfram Manzenreiter Vienna, Austria). Part 1: Sports mega-events, modernity capitalist economies. 2. Mega-events revisited: Maurice Roche Sheffield, UK). 3. The Economic Impact Major Sport Events: Chris Gratton, Simon Shibli, Richard Coleman (Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, 4. Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests C. Michael Hall Otago,...

Abstract This article uses a piece of writing in The Guardian newspaper by the philosopher Slavoj Zizek ('The empty wheelbarrow', 19 February, p. 23, 2005) about former US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, as framework which to reflect critically on major international sporting events, or sports mega‐events. It suggests that it is an academic's duty look at assumptions, beliefs and misrepresentations are often suppressed, or, perhaps more accurately, repressed, based analysis research...

The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was the first football Finals ever to take place in Asia and be co-hosted by two countries. Drawing on data provided national local organizing committees, football’s world governing institution, international media accounts first-hand observations made before, during after event, article discusses contrast between discourses that forecast described actual impacts of its host societies. In particular three aspects are discussed: specific regional political...

There is a disconnection between the top-down, elite, nature of sports mega-events and ostensible redistributive participatory sustainable development agendas staked out by BINGOs (Business-based International Non-Governmental Organizations) such as contemporary Olympic Committee (IOC). Focusing specifically on London 2012 Summer Paralympic Games, we argue that, for all environmental technology advances offered mega-events, their dominant model remains one hollowed-out form development....

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? can help us to understand relationship between sport and society? What will be impact legacy of after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding answers all these questions by exploring social, cultural, political, historical, economic context Games.  This thoroughly revised updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing International Olympic Committee (IOC) face growing global anti-Olympic activism, changing geo-political within...

Academics debate the positive and negative consequences of hosting sports mega-events, although there is a general recognition that doing so cannot be panacea for solving other social issues, who wins loses tends to same. This article considers why mega-events are not more regularly resisted given routinization harm local populations they tend invoke. It develops ideas derived from late sociologist criminologist Stanley Cohen concerning relationships between, politics of, denial...

Journal Article Violence Across the Lifespan: Interconnections Among Forms of Abuse as Described by Marginalized Canadian Elders and their Care-givers Get access Christine A. Walsh, Walsh Correspondence to PhD, Faculty Social Work, University Calgary, 2500 Drive NW, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. E-mail: cwalsh@ucalgary.ca Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jenny Ploeg, Ploeg Lynne Lohfeld, Lohfeld Jaclyn Horne, Horne Harriet MacMillan, MacMillan Daniel Lai The...

On the 50th anniversary of ISSA and IRSS, one leading international scholars on sport consumer culture, John Horne, considers trajectory challenges research sports mega-events their place in capitalist modernity. In anchoring work this topic Roche’s definition mega-events, Horne notes that are important symbolic, economic, political elements orientation nations to stake global society. Fundamental issues about concept ‘mega-event’ pose for as questions remain over what qualifies a mega-event...

Immigration has been central to the creation of working class in many western European societies, albeit not on a scale comparable United States America. Nowhere was this truer for period second wind industrialization, from mid-1890s Depression, than France, where low natural population growth and large, stable peasantry reluctant leave land caused acute labor shortages industry commercialized agriculture. By 1 920s France only America as an industrialized immigrant society.' The state did...

Alterglobalization is the name for a large spectrum of global social movements that present themselves as supporting new forms globalization, urging values democracy, justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead purely economic concerns. This article develops framework study influence alterglobalization on sport by: outlining periodization sport; proposing typology responses to politics globalization; recent associated with sport. The does not report an empirical research...

This article discusses the contemporary politics of sports mega-events, involving Olympic Games and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Men's World Cup Finals as well other lower 'order' megas, taking two main forms: promotional protest. There is a in, of, mega-events. The former focuses on internal organizing bodies, such International Committee FIFA. form has been written about elsewhere, hence, there no detailed discussion in this it. Instead offers brief range number...

‘Fanzines’– magazines produced by fans for on photocopiers or small presses and circulated other means than through mainstream commercial channels – provide an alternative to the products of mass publishing entertainment industry, although often in ‘dialogue’ with these. In England fanzines like Sniffin’ Glue When Saturday Comes– have proliferated over last fifteen years so, dealing especially rock pop music also, most recently, football. Fanzines can be seen as enabling a ‘users’ view’...

Analysis of major sports or 'mega'-events, including the Soccer World Cup, enables consideration several overlapping and intersecting issues. These include: centre-periphery relationships related to governance in world sport; power relations between nation states, supranational sport associations business; media-sport-business connection; cultural production ideologies needed cover emergent fissures-- such as over who actually controls 'global games'; what costs benefits hosting these events...