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Host Cities and the Olympics - An Interactionist Approach (Hardcover)
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Host Cities and the Olympics - An Interactionist Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event
of international or national significance, this book understands
the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a
catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many
years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional
Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's
perspective or as something experienced through the print media or
television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the
dynamics within the host city understood as a community of
interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of
ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have
a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and
players in the Olympics as a drama. Adopting a symbolic
interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model
through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the
relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key
analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm,
and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through
empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is
shown how social media and shifts in public opinion reflected
interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in
the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for
anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies,
event studies or urban sociology.
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