Visitor (im)mobility, leisure consumption and mega-event impact: the territorialisation of Greenwich and small business exclusion at the London 2012 Olympics

Duignan, Mike; Pappalepore, Ilaria

doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1572212

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“…Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980), such an approach seeks to understand the boundaries created within and around spaces and places, which result in belonging for some, while potentially leading to others feeling out of place. Others have adopted a territorological lens to study a range of urban environments such as public squares and precincts (Kärrholm, 2017); urban parks (Cheetham et al, 2018); (pop-up) retail (Kärrholm, 2009(Kärrholm, , 2013Shi et al, 2019); urban mega-events (Duignan & Pappalepore, 2019;McGillivray & Frew, 2014); and urban processions (Platt & Medway, 2020). This paper builds on this work, whilst also being novel in utilising a territorological lens to explore craft beer events, and the territorialization processes that shift across online and offline spaces.…”

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(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events

Jong

Steadman

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associated with claims of diversity and inclusion. Yet, what seldom features in such geographic accounts are the ways events influence, and are influenced by, inclusions and exclusions beyond their temporal and spatial confines, including how territorial processes flow in and across both online and offline spaces. In this paper, we thus adopt Brighenti's (2010) relational approach to territoriality to reveal the fluid and heterogeneous ways the Independent Manchester Beer Convention renders processes of inclusion and exclusion within, and beyond, the time and space of the craft beer event. Utilising fieldwork observations at the 2018 and 2019 conventions and 4,300 social media posts associated with the 2019 convention, we identify how particular subjectivities come to be included and excluded in different ways through the event. We argue that recognition regarding the fluidity and heterogeneity of territorial boundaries, and the role of affordances in shifting such boundaries, are imperative in the utilization of cultural events in generating inclusions through cultural-led regeneration.

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Section: A Territorological Approachmentioning

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(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events

Jong

Steadman

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Rather than promoting grassroots sports and the participation of all the community in sports, the Olympics served as a smokescreen that legitimised the privatisation of areas traditionally reserved for sports. This process involving the creation of monochromatic corporate spaces has been described by Duignan (2019) as the production of 'urban blandscapes' that dilute local offerings within the context of neoliberal cities and mega sport events.…”

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“…Talbot and Carter (2018) highlighted a surge of forced removal and police violence towards the local population in the lead up to the Games, while Gaffney (2016) observed accelerated patterns of gentrification of the host cities. As reported by Duignan (2019), it can also lead to the marginalisation of small local business during and after the hosting of the Games.…”

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“…Since its conception, Olympism has not only been about the organisation of the Olympic Games but has been framed as a philosophy blending sport, culture, and education, and embodying universal fundamental ethical principles (Bizarro et al, 2016). Organising the Olympic Games has an impact on the visitor economy of the host city (Duignan, 2019), the visitor economy being understood in this chapter as a driver for sustainable and inclusive regional, social, and economic development.…”

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“…The Olympic Games can indeed lead to positive social transformation (McGillivray et al, 2020) and urban development of the host city (Pappalepore and Duignan, 2019) and is usually associated with a surge in tourism. The hosting of the Games also increases the cultural offer in the host city and country through the opening of educational centres, museums, and staging of festivals showcasing local culture before, during, and after the Games.…”

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The impact of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the visitor economy: a human rights perspective.

Vandenbroucke

Gérard

May

2021

Managing Events, Festivals and the Visitor Economy: Concepts, Collaborations and Cases

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The overall findings of this research point to a mix of positive and negative human rights impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and on the visitor economy of the host city. On a positive note, affirmative action included persons with disabilities and from underprivileged communities in the workforce. New sports and leisure centres were built. Freedom of expression and association was reinforced by protesters demonstrating and using the platform of the event to raise issues. Several initiatives by the Organizing Committee, government, companies, and associations constituted positive mechanisms for leverage of the human rights to education and to participate in the cultural life of the community, albeit with limited long-term impacts. These wider economic and social successes associated with the hosting of the Games can positively contribute to the quality and inclusivity of the visitor economy. redevelopment, the Games' land use displaced thousands of people, violating the right to housing and several other human rights through abusive practices used by the government in the eviction process. Under the pretext of creating safe spaces for visitors and safeguarding their image of the city, the government's violence towards poor and black communities was aggravated, with the militarisation of the city impacting on the right to life, protection, education, and justice. Attempting to mask the city's socio-economic problems and undesirable aspects for sponsors and visitors, freedom of expression was undermined as protesters were targeted by the police and street vendors were driven out of public spaces.

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Entrepreneurial leveraging in liminoidal olympic transit zones

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O’Brien

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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Visitor (im)mobility, leisure consumption and mega-event impact: the territorialisation of Greenwich and small business exclusion at the London 2012 Olympics

Abstract: WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/westminsterresearch Visitor (im)mobility, leisure consumption and mega-event impact: the territorialisation of Greenwich and small business exclusion at the London 2012 Olympics Duignan, M.B. and Pappalepore, I.

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Entrepreneurial leveraging in liminoidal olympic transit zones

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