Overview
- Takes a interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of a sport mega event
- Raises new questions about the benefits that such mega events may bring to local communities
- Shows how anthropology understood as cultural critique can enrich the international and cross-disciplinary discussion on the subject of mega events
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This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznań, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland’s transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy in 1989, the author focuses on how the local myths and traditions of resourcefulness were invoked to embed an entrepreneurial urban strategy. The book also observes how the very same tradition of resourcefulness was used by the opposition to challenge the urban policies. Contrary to the authorities' expectations, Euro 2012 triggered a discussion about the extent to which large business- and leisure-oriented urban strategy corresponds to local regime of value.
Urban Politics of a Football Mega Event will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of subjects, including anthropology, ethnography, sociology of sport, geography, history, political science and European studies.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event
Book Subtitle: Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective
Authors: Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska
Series Title: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52105-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52104-6Published: 22 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84821-1Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52105-3Published: 12 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 152
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology