The urban politics of sports mega-events in the Global South and North: domination and resistance in struggles over mega-events’ development projects
| dc.contributor.author | Omena de Melo, Erick S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-12T12:06:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-12T12:06:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | 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 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A new urban agenda based on and in the Global South has been demanded by scholars such as Jennifer Robinson (2002, 2014), Ananya Roy (2011,2014) and Colin McFarlane (2012). They have been particularly highlighting the importance of urban issues that currently affect most of the world population but have not been addressed by Global North perspectives. Also recently some developing nations have been hosting sports mega-events, seemingly reversing a long term trend of winning bids from developed countries - the latter only hosted or will host one of the six FIFA World Cups and three of the five Summer Olympic Games in the twenty-first century. These changes create a new scenario that reinforces those demands made by current urban studies. Targeting both problematics, the present paper aims to address issues of urban politics that are emerging in the Global South as neoliberal policies boosted by the attraction of sports mega-events encounter the highly unequal and informal environments of developing nations. By looking at how local governments have tried to avoid dissent during the implementation of large scale development projects associated with sports mega-events and how local communities have reacted to such initiatives, this work intends to analyse the particular ways in which political strategies and tactics of domination and resistance are taking shape under such conditions, contrasting them to those that have emerged in Global North host cities. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 185-188 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2660 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | 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 | en |
| dc.title | The urban politics of sports mega-events in the Global South and North: domination and resistance in struggles over mega-events’ development projects | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |