Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event
Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective
(Sprache: Englisch)
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 Poznan, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland's transformation...
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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 Poznan, 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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1. Anthropology of mega-events.- 2. Between and betwixt. Poznan in the scalar perspective.- 3. "Like Pharaoh, Like Pyramid". Embedding sports mega-event in the local tradition.- 4. "The City Is Not a Company". Or is it?.- 5. Conclusions. Shifting meanings, new knowledge production.Autoren-Porträt von Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska
Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska
- 2017, 1st ed. 2017, XV, 152 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319521047
- ISBN-13: 9783319521046
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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