Overview
- Complicates many commonly held and officially asserted notions of the effects of the Olympics on the host country and its people
- Focuses in on the 2012 Olympics while presenting rich ethnographic detail gathered over the course of seven years of preparation
- Offers a new approach to the study of the 2012 Olympics, one that takes an anthropological approach and examines the impact on the locals over the long term
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Reviews
“Living with London’s Olympics is a necessary, eye-opening and highly readable book … . Taking a critical micro-level view on the contestations, ambiguities and contradictions of the Olympic delivery, it provides a reversal of this massive spectacle. As such the book could be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars well beyond the subdiscipline of urban anthropology.” (Toomas Gross, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Vol. 40 (4), Winter, 2015)
"Cities bidding for the Olympic Games now routinely spend as much time addressing issues of long-term legacy as to plans for the sports competitions. In this pioneering text, Iain Lindsay presents a wealth of ethnographic data to show how the seven-year preparations for London 2012 fared in light of the original claims. It is required reading for anyone interested in the realities of planning for the world's most significant sporting and cultural mega-event." - John Gold, Professor of Urban Historical Geography, Oxford Brookes University, UK"Iain Lindsay has produced a fascinating study of the London 2012 Olympics, specifically regarding how the world's biggest mega-event was experienced and endured by its immediate hosts, the local people in one of the UK's poorest, most ethnically complex, and transient areas. The book is urban anthropology at its very best - richly ethnographic, vividly detailed, and sharply critical - and is essential reading for anyone with an interest i
n sport mega-events, community relations, and urban redevelopment." - Richard Giulianotti, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University, UK"The 2012 London Olympics was a remarkable mega-sporting event that was also tasked with responsibility for the delivery of the regeneration of a blighted segment of the UK's capital. Iain Lindsay has written an astonishingly detailed account of life from within the maelstrom of this delivery. The seven years that Lindsay spent in the field offer a nuanced view of the promises made to local communities when the Games were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how, come Games time, those promises had morphed into a free-market jamboree from which local communities were excluded. This is a fine example of socially committed urban ethnography." - Dick Hobbs, Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia
About the author
Iain Lindsay is Visiting Lecturer in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living with London's Olympics
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography
Authors: Iain Lindsay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453211
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45672-4Published: 12 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49855-0Published: 12 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45321-1Published: 12 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2946-2436
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 202
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Anthropology, Sociology, general