This paper shows how academics from the postsocialist countries of the Global East are
increasingly claiming a voice in the publishing space of international geography journals …

In October 2016, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced a
landmark reform package that ushered in a new era of global football governance known as …

Paris' successful bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics arises in the midst of a grand rethinking
of the politics of regional and local development in the Île-de-France region. Paris 2024 also …

This study seeks to explain the Chinese conception of city branding. Given the intricate and
multidisciplinary nature of city branding, the article aims to address a gap in the literature …

In the context of urgency-filled mega-event preparations, contested urban projects can be
fast-tracked to completion in the name of event. This leads to deviations from the existing …

This paper seeks to establish the theoretical concept of 'urban commodity futures' by
drawing on David Harvey's account of the contradictions of capitalism and Wladimir Andreff's …

This book explores the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia through a comparison of
the host cities of Ekaterinburg and Volgograd-two major but peripheral cities little discussed …

Through an investigation of authoritarian encounters in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, this
paper takes seriously the challenges of making geopolitical sense of contextualised micro …

This chapter begins with a discussion of the challenges Russian scholars face today in
bringing forward comparative analyses and considers a range of terms which have been …

El vínculo entre política y eventos deportivos es un fenómeno que tiene efectos no sólo en
la política interna de los Estados, sino también en las relaciones estatales, en particular en …