The intricate links between the Olympics and urban change have been theorised in diverse ways in critical urban studies, including readings of Olympic city-making in terms of enforcement of neoliberal entrepreneurial governance, gentrification through large-scale redevelopment projects, reproduction of growth-machine politics, and acquisition of symbolic capital through city branding politics. Following these points, we reflect in this paper on how the Olympics exacerbate wider trends in urban political economy under contemporary capitalism in the case of Rio 2016. We attempt to do so by turning to David Harvey’s (2003) conceptualisation of accumulation by dispossession. Our hypothesis is that this concept holds a sizeable heuristic value f...
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio...
Urban spectacles such as the Olympic Games have been long perceived as being able to impose desired ...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between sustainable urban transformation and ho...
The intricate links between the Olympics and urban change have been theorised in diverse ways in cri...
The theoretical framework of accumulation by dispossession allows for a critical examination of urba...
Today’s sporting mega-events are a globally recognized urban spectacle for their capacity to stimula...
One of the justifications deployed for hosting the Olympic Games is that they will offer transformat...
The Olympics Games is a spectacle that attracts international attention. This focus comes with scrut...
In the 1990s, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro initiated a new policy that involved the use of meg...
Over the next two years, Rio de Janiero is set to host the world’s two most premiere sporting events...
As the curtains are drawn in London's East End, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro will be under the internat...
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the social impacts and legacies expected for Rio de Janei...
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio...
As the curtains are drawn in London's East End, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro will be under the internat...
The process of globalization of the economy created the idea of a global urban hierarchy. Within thi...
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio...
Urban spectacles such as the Olympic Games have been long perceived as being able to impose desired ...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between sustainable urban transformation and ho...
The intricate links between the Olympics and urban change have been theorised in diverse ways in cri...
The theoretical framework of accumulation by dispossession allows for a critical examination of urba...
Today’s sporting mega-events are a globally recognized urban spectacle for their capacity to stimula...
One of the justifications deployed for hosting the Olympic Games is that they will offer transformat...
The Olympics Games is a spectacle that attracts international attention. This focus comes with scrut...
In the 1990s, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro initiated a new policy that involved the use of meg...
Over the next two years, Rio de Janiero is set to host the world’s two most premiere sporting events...
As the curtains are drawn in London's East End, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro will be under the internat...
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the social impacts and legacies expected for Rio de Janei...
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio...
As the curtains are drawn in London's East End, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro will be under the internat...
The process of globalization of the economy created the idea of a global urban hierarchy. Within thi...
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio...
Urban spectacles such as the Olympic Games have been long perceived as being able to impose desired ...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between sustainable urban transformation and ho...