Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event

Takes a interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of a sport mega event
Raises new questions about the benefits that such mega events may bring to local communities
Shows how anthropology understood as cultural critique can enrich the international and cross-disciplinary discussion on the subject of mega events

Takes a interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of a sport mega event Raises new questions about the benefits that such mega events may bring to local communities Shows how anthropology understood as cultural critique can enrich the international and cross-disciplinary discussion on the subject of mega events

Autorentext

Magorzata Zofia Kowalska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland.

Zusammenfassung
Takes a interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of a sport mega event
Raises new questions about the benefits that such mega events may bring to local communities
Shows how anthropology understood as cultural critique can enrich the international and cross-disciplinary discussion on the subject of mega events

Inhalt

1. Anthropology of mega-events.- 2. Between and betwixt. Pozna 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.