Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event : Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective

• Main Author: Kowalska, Małgorzata Zofia. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology.; Economic sociology.; Sports > Sociological aspects.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319521053
• Physical Description: XV, 152 p. 2 illus. online resource.

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznań, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland's transformation from a centrally planned to a market econ...