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- Offers an empirically detailed intervention into a debate that is, to a large extent, politically charged and driven by grand claims and far-reaching projections
- Fills a gap in the mega event literature by examining the programmes, attempts and barriers to participation of local communities in deprived neighbourhoods, which has remained conspicuously absent from pertinent research to date
- Provides valuable in-depth research in an empirical field (East London and its migrant communities) that is traditionally difficult to access
Part of the book series: Mega Event Planning (MEGAEP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Regarding the global job market of London, this study provides a nuanced empirical view on how the world’s biggest mega event was experienced and endured in terms employment by its immediate hosts, in one of the UK’s poorest, most ethnically complex, and transient areas. The data has been collected through ethnographic observation and interviews with local residents, and expert interviews with the Olympic delivery professionals. Using Bourdieusian theory of contested capital, the findings provide an important bearing on the reproduction of inequality in the local labor markets of Olympic host cities.
Reviews
“In focussing on employment and the Olympic “legacy” in east London, Niloufar Vadiati‘s book makes a distinctive and important contribution to the academic literature on the 2012 London Games and to the study of mega-events in general.” (Prof. Paul Watt, Birkbeck, University of London)
Authors and Affiliations
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HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Niloufar Vadiati
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Employment Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of East London
Authors: Niloufar Vadiati
Series Title: Mega Event Planning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0598-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0597-3Published: 02 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0598-0Published: 21 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2633-5859
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 139
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urbanism, Urban Studies/Sociology