Sports Mega-Event Geographies
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 3/1/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Urban Geography Specialty Group
, Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Cerianne Robertson
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Chairs(s):
Cerianne Robertson, University of Southern California
; Christopher Gaffney, New York University
Description:
The ‘eventness’ of sports mega-events means they have a limited duration, spanning a few weeks or even just a day. But their production unfolds over much longer temporalities, making claims on a host city or country’s past, present, and future. Similarly, the televised spectacle takes place in a limited set of spaces, but flows of capital, goods, people, images, ideas, technologies, and infrastructure networks circulate far beyond the securitized event venue gates, entangling the mega-event with hyperlocal, municipal, regional, national, transnational, and global geographies. This session explores sports mega-events beyond the typical temporal and spatial boundaries of the ‘event’ category, interrogating the political economies, spatial imaginaries, and networks of power and resistance involved in the production of sporting spectacle.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Perry B. Johnson, ; “The World’s Biggest Stage”: Performing America through the “Acoustic Territories” of the Super Bowl Halftime Show |
Cerianne Robertson, ; The Debate Over Mega-Events and Changing Urban Space: Inglewood and the 2022 Super Bowl |
Christopher Gaffney, ; Geoporn: spectacular reproduction in Olympic Rio de Janeiro |
Adam Beissel, ; Empire Strikes Back: FIFA 2.0, Global Peacemaking, and the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup |
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Sports Mega-Event Geographies
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Cerianne Robertson - ceriannr@usc.edu
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