Mega-Event Mobilities

This book examines sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the 'mobile construction' of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies.

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Christiane Timmerman is Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and director of the Centre of Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS). Johan Wets is Research Manager Migration of HIVA, University of Leuven, Belgium. Luana Gama Gato is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Leuven. Sarah Van den Broucke is Research Associate at HIVA, University of Leuven. She specialises in international migration and policy research.

Introduction. Exposing Sports Mega-Events through a Mobilities Lens 1. Pulling Back the Curtain: On Mobility and Labour Migration in the Production of Mega-Events 2. The Production of the Spectacle: Conceptualising Labour and Global Sports Mega-Events 3. Olympic City Los Angeles: An Exploration of the Urban Imaginary 4. Virtual Mega-event Imaginaries and Worldmaking Imperatives 5. Made in Transit: Mega-Events and Policy Mobilities 6. The Relay of Mega-Event Activism: Why Global Organising Bodies Need to be Targeted 7. Sport Mega-Events as Mega-Projects: Interaction Effects and Local Mobilities 8. Leveraging the Olympic Games: Universal and Local Imaginaries and Mobilities 9. An Agenda for Future Mega-Event Research Afterword Mobilities and Mega-Events: Four Challenges, One Warning