Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. From Legacy to Leverage; Laurence Chalip 2. Megas for Strivers: the Politics of Second Order Events; David Black 3. 'Legacy' Revisited; Holger Preuss 4. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport; Mike Weed 5. Neo-Liberalism and Sports Mega-Events; Michael Silk PART II: PREVIOUS SPORTS MEGA-EVENT STRATEGIES 6. Sydney 2000 and Melbourne 2006: A Tale of Two Australian Cities; Bob Stewart 7. 'Leaving Las Magas', or Can Sustainability ever be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective; Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe 8. Seoul 1998; Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho 9. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup; Dongfeng Liu 10. London 2012; John Horne and Barrie Houlihan PART III: 'EMERGING STATES' AND SPORTS MEGA-EVENTS 11. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games; Wolfram Manzenreiter 12. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the 'World-Class' City - The Commonwealth Games in Delhi; Amita Baviskar 13. South Africa's 'Coming Out Party': Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup; Scarlett Cornelissen 14. Qatar, Global Sport, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup; Paul Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti 15. Russia: Showcasing a 'Re-Emerging' State?; Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina

Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK Amita Baviskar, The Institute of Economic Growth, India David Black, Dalhousie University, Canada Paul Michael Brannagan, Loughborough University, UK Laurence Chalip, University of Illinois, USA Ji-Hyun Cho, Yong In University, South Korea Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Liu Dongfeng, Shanghai University of Sport, China Richard Giulianotti, Loughborough University, UK Oleg Golubchikov, Cardiff University, UK John Horne, University of Central Lancashire, UK Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University, UK Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Caitlin Pentifallo, University of British Columbia, Canada Michael Silk, University of Bath, UK Bob Stewart, Victoria University, Australia Holger Preuss, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany Irina Slepukhina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Renata Toledo, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Mike Weed, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Robert VanWynsberghe, University of British Columbia, Canada

"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