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By Andrey Makarychev,Alexandra Yatsyk

ISBN-10: 1137490942

ISBN-13: 9781137490940

The edited quantity explains why activity mega occasions may be mentioned from the point of view of politics and tool, and what this dialogue can upload to the prevailing scholarship on political regimes, foreign norms, nationwide identities, and cultural narratives. The booklet collects case reviews written by means of insiders from assorted nations of post-Soviet Eurasia that experience lately hosted— or intend to host sooner or later —sporting occasions of a world scale. Contributing authors talk about cultural, political, and financial innovations of host governments, reading them from the vantage aspect of an expanding shift of the worldwide game to non-Western nations.  Mega-events frequently draw family strains of cultural and social exclusion inside of host’s polities. it really is those ruptures and gaps this quantity explores, contributing to a greater knowing of the complex interconnections among international associations and nationwide identities.  

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