Chapter 22: Globalization and mega-events: thinking through flows
Martin Müller
and
Christopher Gaffney
Category:
Handbook Chapter
Published:
30 Nov 2018
Page Range:
296–305
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363849.00032
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Sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup are quintessential expressions of the multiple facets of globalization. This contribution analyses mega-events as the drivers and outcomes of a vortex of global flows of people, capital, images, and knowledge. It examines the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as an example of how global flows are articulated in local contexts.

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Cover Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Edited by
Robert C. Kloosterman
,
Virginie Mamadouh
, and
Pieter Terhorst
Handbook
Published:
30 Nov 2018
Print ISBN:
9781785363832
eISBN:
9781785363849
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363849
Pages:
c 512
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
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