Mega‐events and the minor

Sven Daniel Wolfe

doi:10.1111/area.12956

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Mega‐events and the minor

Sven Daniel Wolfe

Area Vol. 56 No. 3 · Wiley

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Abstract

AbstractMega‐events like the Olympics and the football World Cups remain popular around the globe, regardless of their record of damaging host cities and societies. In parallel, research on mega‐events continues to grow across a range of disciplines, including geography. Much of this literature remains fixed at global levels of analysis. In this light, mega‐events suffer from a double problem: their planning and articulation too often cause harm to cities and societies and, simultaneously, research on mega‐events focuses too much on the macro. This paper endeavours to address both problems by proposing to make sense of mega‐events by thinking through the minor. This concern valorises micro scales and marginalised people, those who most often lose during mega‐event hosting. The paper argues that geographers are uniquely positioned to conduct nuanced mega‐event research across a globally diverse range of political‐economic contexts, and calls for more geographers to contribute to this project in a move towards a critical geography of mega‐events.

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Published: Jul 03, 2024
Vol/Issue: 56(3)
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Sven Daniel Wolfe

Spatial Development and Urban Policy, Institut für Raum Und Landschaftsentwicklung ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Award: PZ00P1_208764

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Sven Daniel Wolfe (2024). Mega‐events and the minor. Area, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12956

Mega‐events and the minor

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