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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mega-Events and Social Issues
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Post-Soviet Autocracies and Mega-Events
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Global Norms and Local Governance
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About this book
Reviews
“This fascinating analysis opens up new dimensions in thinking about alternative actors to states” (Prof. Dr. Klaus Segbers, Director, Center for Global Politics, Free University Berlin, Germany)
“Much-needed and overdue, this book brings some transparency into the opaque hosting of mega-events in post-Soviet countries. Demonstrating a fine conceptual edge, it shows how mega-events are much more than big sports extravaganzas: sources of rent extraction, political sledgehammers, instruments of legitimation.” (Martin Müller, Professor at the University of Zurich and co-editor of “Global games, local rules: mega-events in the post-socialist world” (2015))
“The papers collected in this volume provide a timely and engaging look at the use of sports mega-events by non-Western states. As such, Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia offers a much needed counter-point to the burgeoning extant literature on the political use of sports megas by focussing on the less well researched area of post-Soviet Eurasia.” (Jonathan Grix, Reader at theUniversity of Birmingham, author of “Sport Politics: An Introduction” (2015) and “Sport Under Communism: The East German Experience”, (2012))“Nothing illustrates the sweeping ambitions of Vladimir Putin’s Russia than the mega-event, and the mega-projects to build the stadiums, hotels and transit networks required to play host to the world. From the Winter Olympics in Sochi to the World Cup in 2018, the pursuit of the international games have shaped the nation’s identity and served as the means for the distribution of its rents – regardless of the economic, social or environmental costs. And Russia is not alone. The quest for international recognition, for validation of authoritarian political systems, has become a defining feature of the entire post-Soviet space.” (Steven Lee Myers, author of “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin” ( 2015))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexandra Yatsyk is Carnegie Research Scholar at the George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, USA and Head of the Center for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism at the Kazan Federal University, Russia. She is a co-editor of a special issue of Sport in Society (2015) and the author of several book chapters and articles, including Russia's Foreign Policy (2015), European Urban and Regional Studies, Problems of Post- Communism, International Spectator, and Digital Icons.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Book Subtitle: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion
Editors: Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk
Series Title: Mega Event Planning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49095-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49094-0Published: 19 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49095-7Published: 29 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2633-5859
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 229
Topics: Human Geography, Political Sociology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure