Configuring the Field of Play: How Hosting the Olympic Games Impacts Civic Community

作者: Mary Ann Glynn

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6486.2008.00785.X

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摘要: I theorize and empirically illustrate how the mega-event of Olympic Games configures relational symbolic systems within host city. focus on a field at level local geographic community explore city character traditions enable both persistence change in institutional elements even when potentially disruptive events occur. present two exploratory studies. The first shows event Olympics is rooted but varies by communities; second explores dynamics configuring one city: Atlanta, 1996 Games.

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