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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.40,Issue4,P.387-408

语言

英文

关键字

Russia; mega-events; legitimacy; professionals; nationalism; multiscalarity; SPORT MEGA-EVENTS; POWER; GEOPOLITICS; POLITICS; GAMES

作者单位

[Trubina, Elena] Ural Fed Univ, Ctr Global Urbanism, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Trubina, E (reprint author), Ural Fed Univ, Ctr Global Urbanism, Ekaterinburg, Russia. E-Mail: elena.trubina@gmail.com

摘要

The Olympics literature typically makes cities the predominant unit of analysis and investigates how and why certain cities host the Games. This article examines how the international and national self-seeking bureaucratic elites instrumentalize the Games across several spatial scales, with a host city functioning as a stage on which the multi-scalar actors use the Olympics to increase their legitimacy and to coopt large groups of populations and elites. The article offers the concept of multiscalar Olympics legitimacy necessary for the analysis of the organization of mega-events and their consequences for cities. It asks, how the actors at various geographical scales managed and exploited the Games? Drawing on the theories of legitimacy and mega-events, and data from interviews conducted in Russia between 2009 and 2015, I demonstrate that organizers used cooptation of professionals and nationalist legitimization as the instruments facilitating host city involvement in the Olympics.