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The Hard Edge of Soft Power
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This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case studies from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, this volume features the sensitivity of grounded local research framed within geopolitical perspectives. Together, they present an international and transdisciplinary understanding of the local and global political implications of hosting mega-events. The volume reveals what hides under the mega-event spectacle: problems that – regardless of national context – most often occur to the detriment of host populations. This is an open access book.
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Keywords
- Africa
- Authoritarianism
- Brazil
- China
- COP28
- Eastern Europe
- FIFA World Cup 2022
- Geopolitics
- hosting
- Iraq
- Mega Events
- Olympic Games
- Olympics
- Qatar
- Russia
- Salt Lake City
- soft power
- Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBS Sociology: sport and leisure
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
- World Cup
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3515-3Editions