Mega‐events and the minor

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ID8361752
AutoresD Wolfe (0000-0002-4517-6056, ETH Zurich, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen56
Número3
Fecha de publicación2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12956
OpenAlexW4400291048
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas47

Mega‐events like the Olympics and the football World Cups remain popular around the globe, regardless of their record of damaging host cities and societies. In parallel, research on mega‐events continues to grow across a range of disciplines, including geography. Much of this literature remains fixed at global levels of analysis. In this light, mega‐events suffer from a double problem: their planning and articulation too often cause harm to cities and societies and, simultaneously, research on mega‐events focuses too much on the macro. This paper endeavours to address both problems by proposing to make sense of mega‐events by thinking through the minor. This concern valorises micro scales and marginalised people, those who most often lose during mega‐event hosting. The paper argues that geographers are uniquely positioned to conduct nuanced mega‐event research across a globally diverse range of political‐economic contexts, and calls for more geographers to contribute to this project in a move towards a critical geography of mega‐events

Articulation (sociology) · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Event (particle physics) · Geography · Globe · Harm · Mega · Megacity · Minor (academic) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society