9780415535335: Host Cities and the Olympics

Synopsis

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 the 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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À propos de l?auteur


Harry H. Hiller

is Director of the Cities and the Olympics Project and Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Calgary. He has been lecturing and publishing on the Olympics from an urban perspective for more than twenty years.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780415522410: Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415522412 ISBN 13 :  9780415522410
Editeur : Routledge, 2012
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