Mega sports events and insurgent citizenship in Rio de Janeiro
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2016
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Modern mega sports events represent new global coalitions of international organizations and multinational corporations. These events juxtapose the competition between large cities to attract international investors to promote post-fordist and service-sector based growth. After nearly two decades of failed attemps, from a strategic plan inspired by Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro was successful in hosting the two largest contemporary mega sports events, the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The last decades, Brazil has made significant progress towards enabling greater citizen participation through a myriad of participatory processes consolidated on a federal, state, and municipal level. At the same time, the urban governance in Rio has taken a neoliberal turn, using global mega sports events as a strategy to enhance private economic development in the city. The prospect of the benefits of the mega events have opened up for overstepping the existing institutional and constitutional/legal framework, with consequences for the urban poor and their access to decision making.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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