Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events | Concepts and Cases | ISBN 9781349475483

Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Concepts and Cases

herausgegeben von J. Grix
Buchcover Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events  | EAN 9781349475483 | ISBN 1-349-47548-3 | ISBN 978-1-349-47548-3

„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

Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

Concepts and Cases

herausgegeben von J. Grix
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).