The 2014 Winter Olympics Bid Book as Site of National Identity Constitution

Casula, Philipp

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“…As it happens, the most useful analysis is being conducted by scholars representing the first approach. The rich existing literature on the Sochi 2014 Games explores the various economic (Golubchikov, 2017;Mu¨ller, 2014), cultural (Bennett, 2016;Casula, 2016;Mulcahy, 2017), tourism-related (Vetitnev and Bobina, 2017), political (Ekberg and Strange, 2017;Gronskaya and Makarychev, 2014;Lenskyj, 2014;Persson and Petersson, 2014), mass media-related (Gambarato, 2015;Wolfe, 2016) and legal (Davidson and McDonald, 2017;Postlethwaite, 2014) questions posed by the run-up to as well as the implementation and legacy of this mega-event. Roche (2000: 2) famously claimed regarding the future consequences of all mega-events that there exists a specific long-lasting temporal dynamic in their understanding and consequences: some effects of the events become obvious when '"the show" appears to be over'.…”

Section: The Sochi Games: Conceptualizing the Universal And The Particularmentioning

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The urban commodity futures of the Olympics: Examining the multiscalar processes of the Games

Трубина

2019

Environ Plan A

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This paper seeks to establish the theoretical concept of 'urban commodity futures' by drawing on David Harvey's account of the contradictions of capitalism and Wladimir Andreff's analysis of Olympic bidding as a monopolist allocation process based on auctioning in the context of asymmetrical information. 'Urban commodity futures' are shown to be a process of urban change both enabled by and formative of the boosters of 'the next big thing in the city'. The discursive performativity of visions of the urban future generated by the boosters both creates new and reproduces existing possibilities for profitable manipulation of the public sector. The boosters unite geographically disparate markets in the global auction of assets and ambitions by establishing specific connections between places through bidding competitions and by capitalizing on existing contradictions. The bidding itself becomes an auction in which urban commodity futures are traded to strengthen the links between local capital and transnational corporations. When considered in light of 'urban commodity futures', the case of the 2014 Winter Games offers a stimulating inversion of some narratives of the Games, whereby developing countries are presented as striving to 'earn' the global community's attention.

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Section: The Sochi Games: Conceptualizing the Universal And The Particularmentioning

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The urban commodity futures of the Olympics: Examining the multiscalar processes of the Games

Трубина

2019

Environ Plan A

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“…In only a few years' time, studies of sport mega-events in Russia, a relatively new field of research, have engendered an outpouring of diverse approaches and conceptualizations looking at sport from the standpoints of human rights (Arnold 2016), identity (Casula 2016), ethnopolitics (Petersson and Vamling 2017), normative issues (Ekberg and Strange 2017), interstate relations (Taras 2017), and subnational regionalism and urban governance (Yatsyk 2016a(Yatsyk , 2016bMakarychev and Yatsyk 2014). Yet, this growing field of academic inquiry still awaits discussion of many critical questions.…”

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Entertain and Govern

Makarychev

Yatsyk²

2018

Problems of Post-Communism

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The article looks at Russia's international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The key argument of the article is that both elements of the puzzle can be approached as central elements of governmentality.

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“…PERSSON;PETERSSON, 2014). Portanto, é um tanto quanto contraditório se utilizar do discurso sustentável nessa ocasião, pois o multiculturalismo e a diversidade acabam se tornando algo comercial e conservador por não conter nenhum conteúdo emancipatório, onde o outro é visto de modo orientalista, sendo somente cultural e não político(CASULA, 2016), no qual os diferentes tipos de saberes acabam sendo ignorados.Na região da costa, também nos deparamos com uma situação complexa. A região da Baía de Imeretinskaya é uma região de pântanos com flora e fauna única, além de ser um ponto importante para pássaros em migração (PETERSSON;VAMLING, 2016).…”

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Sustentabilidade no movimento olímpico

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2023

Bol. Camp. Geog.

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O artigo a seguir tem como objetivo esclarecer sobre a trajetória da questão da sustentabilidade no movimento olímpico e em certas cidades sedes apresentando a geohistória do que se entende enquanto desenvolvimento sustentável, como tal discurso é incorporado ao olimpismo e como se realiza na prática. Trabalhar-se-á com o argumento de que nos países emergentes a sustentabilidade se encontra mais como um discurso do que como uma prática. Para dar base a nossa argumentação utilizaremos os casos de Pequim, Sochi e Rio de Janeiro, tendo em vista que tais cidades se localizam em países considerados emergentes, China, Rússia e Brasil, e foram sedes das Olímpiadas de Verão, a primeira e a terceira, e Olímpiada de Inverno, a segunda, nos anos de 2008, 2014 e 2016. A partir deles veremos como que, na realidade, acabamos tendo degradação ambiental ao invés de preservação na produção destes megaeventos.

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The 2014 Winter Olympics Bid Book as Site of National Identity Constitution

Cited by 4 publications

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The urban commodity futures of the Olympics: Examining the multiscalar processes of the Games

The urban commodity futures of the Olympics: Examining the multiscalar processes of the Games

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