Girginov Rethinking Olympic Legacy

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-62925-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

How do Olympic legacies come about? This book offers an alternative approach to the study of Olympic and mega sport event legacy, challenging how legacy is conceptualised and practiced.

It shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the Games, to a prospective one interested in actions and interactions stimulated by the Games.

The book argues that creating Olympic legacy is a continuing four-stage process involving ‘investing’ (the accumulated common Olympic cultural capital), ‘interpelling’ (forming a trusteeship relationship where one party undertakes to change the capacity of another), ‘developing’ (ensuring participation in interactions and resource development), and ‘codifying’ (documenting, sharing and remembering legacies so they become cultural capital). It presents a developmental approach to the Olympics which involves vision, trustees and trusteeship, and is concerned with capacity building at individual, organisational and societal levels.

Rethinking Olympic Legacy is essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the Olympics, as well as for administrators, policymakers and planners involved with mega sport events.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Girginov, Vassil

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Olympische Spiele, Paralympics
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportveranstaltungen, Sportmanagement, Teams & Clubs

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Untangling the Link Between the Olympics and Legacy: An Introduction

2. Olympism, Contentious Politics and Social Change

3. A Resource Perspective on the Olympics

4. Leveraging Olympic Resources

5. Olympism in Action: A Capacity Building Perspective

6. National Sport Organisations Leveraging of the Olympics for Capacity Building

7. The Host Country’s Higher Education Sector and The Olympics: Interactions, Resources and Capacity Development

8. Olympic Interactions, Resource Leveraging and Capacity Building in Context: The Cases of the British Paralympic Association, British Cycling and the Russian Figure Skating Federation [with Nikolay Peshin]

9. Why Rethinking Olympic Legacy: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Vassil Girginov is Reader in Sport Management and Development at Brunel University London and Visiting Professor at the Russian International Olympic University. His work is concerned with understanding the relationship between the Olympic Games and social change in various cultural and economic milieus. Girginov's most recent publications include: Olympic Studies, 4 vols. (Routledge, 2015), Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2 vols. (Routledge, 2012-3), Sport Management Cultures (Routledge, 2011), and The Olympics: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2010)