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The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each instalment. This is due to the fact that underpinning the 17 days of spectacular sporting events is approximately a decade worth of planning, preparing, and politicking. It is during this decade that prospective host cities must plan and win their bids before embarking upon seven years of urban upheaval and social transformation in order to stage the world's premier sporting event. This book draws on seven years of ethnographic inquiry around the London 2012 Olympics and contrasts the rhetoric and reality of mega-event delivery. Lindsay argues that the twin notions of beneficial Olympic legacies and Olympic delivery benefits for hosting communities are, for most, unobtainable.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Living with London's Olympics
• Author: Iain Lindsay
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 202
• EAN: 9781137456724
• ISBN: 1137456728
• ID: 04772221
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 144 × 218 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2014

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