Mega-Event Mobilities

This book examines sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. It focuses on the tension between the various mobilities and immobilities that are implied in the process of constructing a mega-event. It uncovers the ways in which an event is a series of fluid interactions that occur sequentially and simultaneously at multiple scales in diverse spheres of interaction. Contributions reveal the textures and nuance of the complex systems that sustain events, and the ways that events ramify throughout the international system.