‘A Nation To Be Reckoned With’: The Politics of World Cup Stadium Construction in Cape Town and Durban, South Africa1

Alegi, Peter

doi:10.1080/00020180802505038

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“…Much of the benefit derived from these events is restricted to a capitalist class. Resentments and resistance to these inequalities have also been logged worldwide and in Latin America (Alegi 2008;Conde and Jazeel 2013). As these exhibitions of multiplied wealth and luxury grow, the experience and housing of poor communities becomes even more invisible, erased from memory with walls, gates, stigmatization, dislocation, policing, and media smears.…”

Section: Social Erasuresmentioning

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Spatially Polarized Landscapes and a New Approach to Urban Inequality

Dinzey-Flores¹

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Displays of wealth and opulence in the face of dire need and poverty have become commonplace as the rich and the poor increasingly share city spaces around the globe. Research shows that it is the perception of inequality, more than raw measures of inequality, that has important political consequences and that is most concerning for social well-being. In this article, I propose a theoretical move from a general, statistically driven conceptualization of inequality to a spatially informed concept that recognizes how people experience inequality. Relying on findings that show that the perception of inequality is most important for life chances, I suggest that it is key to understand not only where inequality is located but how it is spatially distributed. Using the Mall of San Juan as an example of a spatially polarized landscape in Puerto Rico, and referring to other cases in Latin America, the article shows how the spatial distribution of inequality highlights the perceptual fields of citizens who may celebrate, succumb to, respond to, attune to, and/or challenge the inequalities accordingly. To shift from an accounting of inequality through the concept of segregation to recognizing the experience and perception of inequality through spatial polarization shifts the scholarly and policy frames of inequality research and policy.

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Section: Social Erasuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatially Polarized Landscapes and a New Approach to Urban Inequality

Dinzey-Flores¹

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…South Africa, 2010 FIFA World Cup;China, 2008 Olympic Games;India, 2010 Commonwealth Games;Russia, 2014 Winter Olympics;and forthcoming, Russia, 2018 FIFA World Cup;Qatar, 2022 FIFA World Cup) where the host nation has sought to exploit their hosting of the event to improve its international image (see also Grix and Houlihan, 2013). Cornelissen (2008) has shown how South Africa attempted this by hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup and whilst Alegi (2008) has shown how sports politics and diplomacy were expressions of soft power in a South African context. Manzenreiter (2010) identified how international stereotypes and misconceptions were difficult barriers to overcome for those nations seeking to change their global image, with Brannagan and Giulianotti (2014) identifying how the Qatari state is seeking to distance itself from the region's wider socio-political issues by hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup Finals.…”

Section: Sports Events and Soft Powermentioning

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‘Brand Israel’: hasbara and Israeli sport

Dart

2016

Sport in Society

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“…The ultimate measure of whether or not an urban planning regime is sustainable is if it increases social equity [19]. The negative impacts of sports mega-events on urban planning regimes and on the urban and social fabrics are well documented [20][21][22]. In almost all cases, cities and countries have violated human rights and the right to the city in the preparation and hosting of sports mega-events [23].…”

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Between Discourse and Reality: The Un-Sustainability of Mega-Event Planning

Gaffney

2013

Sustainability

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Abstract:The zero-sum nature of mega-event hosting encourages cities to escalate investment with an eye towards convincing event rights holders that a positive outcome will result. The discursive frameworks of -legacy‖ and -sustainability‖, the global competition to attract events and the compressed event horizon make for mega-event preparation regimes that may seriously compromise long-term urban planning agendas in mega-event hosts. By examining the sustainable urban planning literature, the discursive frameworks of sustainability in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the discursive framing of the Rio 2016 bid, this paper will examine the Olympic Golf project being implemented in Rio de Janeiro. Through this case study the paper argues that unless mega-event rights holders change their candidacy and selection processes, these events will inevitably be detrimental to their hosts.

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‘A Nation To Be Reckoned With’: The Politics of World Cup Stadium Construction in Cape Town and Durban, South Africa1

Cited by 64 publications

References 19 publications

Spatially Polarized Landscapes and a New Approach to Urban Inequality

Spatially Polarized Landscapes and a New Approach to Urban Inequality

‘Brand Israel’: hasbara and Israeli sport

Between Discourse and Reality: The Un-Sustainability of Mega-Event Planning

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