1st Edition

Host Cities and the Olympics An Interactionist Approach

By Harry Hiller Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1. Building an Interpretive Model: From Macro to Micro  Chapter 2. The Olympics as Dramaturgy  Chapter 3. Framing: Interpreting the Olympic Projec  Chapter 4. The Public Realm  Chapter 5. The Host City as A Symbolic Field  Chapter 6. The Social Media and Urban Interaction  Chapter 7. The Consequences of Interaction: Public Opinion and the Olympics Chapter 8. Conclusion

Biography

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.