This article examines the ways in which envisioned sport mega-event legacies are publicly
framed, communicated and contested. By employing Bourdieusian field theory, the …

Mega‐events like the Olympics and the football World Cups remain popular around the
globe, regardless of their record of damaging host cities and societies. In parallel, research …

O Livro “Gestão de Eventos de Desporto: Um Guia para a Gestão” é uma introdução aos
princípios e às áreas funcionais que sustentam e acolhem os eventos de desporto, desde a …

Protests over sustainability concerns attached to hosting the Olympic Games have resulted
in several bid withdrawals and a low number of candidate cities willing to host the most …

People as infrastructure politics, a fruitful new analytic in urban political studies, has
mysteriously been minimally studied in global north cities and their most punished places …

The tangible and intangible legacy of the World Universiades is a debatable topic in the
science literature of the world. The Universiade-2019 has become a powerful stimulus for …

Much research from the events literature has focused on the importance of using events to
develop and/or regenerate spaces and places (Schneider and Jacobson, 2019; Smith …

States have long used so-called 'soft power strategies' to attempt to gain influence in
international relations, drawing on such resources as language, cultural and political …

As part of its ongoing review of the processes surrounding the hosting of the Olympic Games
(OGs), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set out the Olympic Agenda 2020 and …

This chapter provides an overview on the Winter Olympics of Milan-Cortina 2026 by
depicting and discussing the origins and evolution of the proposal, as well as its governance …