Noel B. (Hrsg.) Salazar

Mega-Event Mobilities

A Critical Analysis

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Timmerman, Christiane (Hrsg.) / Wets, Johan (Hrsg.) / Gama Gato, Luana (Hrsg.) / Broucke, Sarah van den (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-315-44011-8
EAN: 9781315440118
Produktnummer: 31760713
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'008 KB
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.Christiane Timmerman is Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and director of the Centre of Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS).Johan Wets is Research Manager Migration of HIVA, University of Leuven, Belgium.Luana Gama Gato is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Leuven.Sarah Van den Broucke is Research Associate at HIVA, University of Leuven. She specialises in international migration and policy research.