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Host Cities and the Olympics

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 to the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsiders perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference but who have a profound influence on the outcome of the Games as actors and players in the Olympics as a drama.

Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is shown how the social media and shifts in public opinion reflected interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies, event studies, or urban sociology.

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.

Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

	Sport, Masculinities and the Body Ian Wellard
	India and the Olympics Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta
	Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe Edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Barrie Houlihan and Fabien Ohl
	Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports Edited by Jim Parry, Mark Nesti and Nick Watson
	Women and Exercise The Body, Health and Consumerism Edited by Eileen Kennedy and Pirkko Markula
	Race, Ethnicity and Football Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Edited by Daniel Burdsey
	The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe An Institutional Perspective Edited by Hallgeir Gammelster and Benot Senaux
	Sport and Social Mobility Crossing Boundaries Ramn Spaaij
	Critical Readings in Bodybuilding Edited by Adam Locks and Niall Richardson
	The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport Power, Pedagogy and the Popular Michael Silk
	Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts Dale C. Spencer
	The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy Beatriz Garcia
	The Urban Geography of Boxing Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring Benita Heiskanen
	The Social Organization of Sports Medicine Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives Edited by Dominic Malcolm and Parissa Safai
	Host Cities and the Olympics An Interactionist Approach Harry H. Hiller

Host Cities and the Olympics

An interactionist approach

Harry H. Hiller

First published 2012
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2012 Harry H. Hiller

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hiller, Harry H., 1942
Host cities and the Olympics : an interactionist approach /
by Harry H. Hiller.

p. cm.

1. City planningHistory.2. Municipal governmentHistory. 3. Municipal servicesHistory. 4. OlympicsHistory. 5. Olympics Planning. 6. OlympicsManagementHistory. I. Title.

HT166.H526 2012
307.1'21609dc23

2011051739

ISBN: 978-0-415-52241-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-53533-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-12133-7 (ebk)

Typeset in Goudy
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

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Acknowledgments

The analysis presented in this book has benefited from visits to and interactions with people in a number of bid cities such as stersund, Sweden, and Cape Town, South Africa; Olympic cities such as Athens, Salt Lake City, Turin, Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro; several meetings in the Olympic capital city of Lausanne; and discussions with many city representatives at meetings of the World Union of Olympic Cities. The relationship between host cities and the Olympics has always been an on the ground, first person focus for me rather than merely an analytical view from afar. Therefore, I am very grateful for the opportunities I have had to walk and talk with people from many cities where the Olympics have been on the agenda.

The Cities and the Olympics Project of which I am Director became particularly active as the result of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, when a number of unique research initiatives were begun, which are discussed in this book. The willingness of Angus Reid Public Opinion and its representative Mario Conseco to share their data with me has been invaluable. I especially want to thank my colleague Richard A. Wanner for his statistical expertise and collaboration on the analysis of the public opinion data, which is reflected in . Dicks colleagueship on this aspect of the project has been superb. My gratitude is also expressed to Kevin McQuillan, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Calgary, who provided assistance for this project. My thanks are also extended to cartographer Robin Poitras, who created the map of the public realm.

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