1st Edition
The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s Governance, Impacts and Controversies
Introduction—The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies
Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Joel Rookwood and Daniel Parnell
1. Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies
Michael Annear, Shintaro Sato, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro and Yasuo Shimizu
2. Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 2012
Themis Kokolakakis and Fernando Lera-López
3. Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature
Balázs Polcsik and Szilvia Perényi
4. “Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New Zealand As One 2023 social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™
Adam Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite and Andrew Grainger
5. Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
Jonathan Rocha de Oliveira, Maria Thereza de Oliveira Souza and André Mendes Capraro
6. Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives
Christina Philippou
7. Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 2026
Nicholas Wise and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
8. From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan
Joel Rookwood
9. Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032
Walker J. Ross and Madeleine Orr
Biography
Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen is Senior Lecturer in International Reltions and Politics with Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research fields are within the sociology and politics of sport and he has authored four books in this area.
Joel Rookwood is Lecturer in Sport Management at University College Dublin in Ireland and a visiting fellow in Sport Management and Marketing at the University of Vic – Central Catalunya in Spain. Joel’s research interests include sports mega-events, international development, the football industry and sports governance, areas in which he has published widely.
Daniel Parnell is Associate Professor in Sport Business at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. Dan’s research interests lie in business management, policy, and social and economic networks in sport.
