Exploring the use of large sporting events in the post-crash, post-welfare city: A ‘legacy’ of increasing insecurity?

Mooney, Gerry; McCall, Vikki; Paton, Kirsteen

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“…However, Owe's (2012) review of evidence of past event legacies mirrored the findings of others, concluding that legacy evaluations of past events lacked robust evidence or had mixed evidence regarding their positive impact (Horne, 2007;Martin and Barth, 2013;McCartney et al, 2012;Mooney et al, 2015;Stewart and Rayner, 2016). Furthermore, other analyses have cautioned against the commonly-held perceptions about the possibility of a 'trickle-down effect' in terms of using funding for elite level sporting competitions to boost community sports and physical activity participation (Clark and Kearns, 2016), whilst others urge caution on the validity of claims regarding the 'feel-good effect' of hosting events such as the Games (Matheson, 2010;McCartney et al, 2012;Owe, 2012;Stewart and Rayner, 2016).…”

Section: Sport Scottish Politics and The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Gmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Following the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Scotland, and particularly Glasgow, have actively pursued a range of sporting events as part of an economic development strategy underpinned by tourism promotion, infrastructural improvements and urban regeneration (Christie and Gibb, 2015;Matheson, 2010;Mooney et al, 2015). Black (2014) argues that 'second-order' events such as the 2014 Glasgow Games are of great importance to 'locales for whom second-order games at the only realistic means of pursuing event-centred development strategies' (2014: 16), given that any attempts to 'springboard' to larger sporting events (as was the case of Kuala Lumpur 1998 or Delhi 2010) is infeasible for smaller host nations such as Scotland (Horne, 2017).…”

Section: Sport Scottish Politics and The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The SNP, Scottish Labour and Glasgow 2014 – Contrasting Political Narratives of the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Whigham¹

2017

Scottish Affairs

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This article critically examines the predominant narratives which emanate from political discourse in relation to two significant events in Scotland in 2014 – the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the independence referendum. This article uses an analysis of the political discourse from the two largest parties in the Scottish Parliament at the time of the Games, the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) and the pro-union Scottish Labour Party, to highlight the contrasting discursive strategies of each party within their manifestos, policy documents, press releases and parliamentary speeches. This analysis demonstrates that each party portrayed nuanced positions on the Games, with the SNP illustrating the constraining nature of the constitutional status quo in relation to the potential economic and social benefits of the Games, and Labour using the event to illustrate the effectiveness of their stewardship of the Glasgow City Council despite the council funding cuts imposed by the SNP-led Scottish Government. Despite acknowledging the marginal status of the Games on the eventual outcome of the referendum, both parties suggested that the success of the event could lead to a ‘feel-good factor’ which could boost the ‘Yes’ vote. Such questionable claims are evaluated in light of past academic studies which question the validity of legacy outcomes from sporting events such as the Games (e.g. Giulianotti, 2016 ; Horne, 2007 ; Horne and Manzenreiter, 2006 ; Martin and Barth, 2013 ; Stewart and Rayner, 2016 ; Zimbalist, 2015 ).

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Section: Sport Scottish Politics and The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Gmentioning

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Section: Sport Scottish Politics and The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Gmentioning

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The SNP, Scottish Labour and Glasgow 2014 – Contrasting Political Narratives of the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Whigham¹

2017

Scottish Affairs

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“…This recalibration is accelerated by what Jamie Peck (2012) has called 'austerity urbanism', involving deep welfare cuts in post-crash US cities, the latest twist in the neoliberalisation saga. While Peck's focus is the US, austerity urbanism is readily apparent in British cities where cuts to public services are having the greatest impact on the most deprived urban areas (Greer Murphy, 2017;McKenzie, 2015;Mooney et al, 2015). This includes East London boroughs such as Newham, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets (Fitzgerald & Lupton, 2015) -those same boroughs which hosted the 2012 Olympic Games.…”

Section: The Right To the City Gender Housing And Austerity Urbanismmentioning

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Gendering the right to housing in the city: Homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London

Watt

2018

Cities

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This paper assesses how gender, housing, austerity and the right to the city interrelate with reference to female lone parents from East London, the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. In so doing, the paper draws upon qualitative research undertaken with lone parent mothers living in temporary accommodation. The women's housing experiences are embedded within a deepening of neo-liberal welfare cutbacks and restructuring under what Peck (2012) has called 'austerity urbanism'. Although the mother's lives are based in East London where they have extended family and where many of them grew up, they have either been moved, or face the prospect of being moved, out of the area and even beyond the city limits into suburban South East England. Rather than basking in the much trumpeted 2012 Games regeneration 'legacy', these women's right to live in East London, close to their support networks, is being eroded.

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“…We will use the Games to encourage greater participation in sport across all age groups, and focus on leaving a lasting legacy of sporting facilities for after 2014. (Scottish Conservatives Scottish Parliament Elections Manifesto, 2010, p. 27) Interestingly, however, the Conservatives placed a greater degree of emphasis than the other parties on the potential to use the Games to encourage health improvements in Scotland, despite the questionable evidence supporting such claims (Clark and Kearns 2015, McCartney et al 2012, Mooney et al 2015, Owe 2012, Stewart and Rayner 2016:…”

Section: The Scottish Green Party -A 'Green Yes' and Green Games?mentioning

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Analysing sport policy and politics: the promises and challenges of synthesising methodological approaches

Whigham

Bairner

2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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This article reflects upon the potential analytical utility of synthesising contrasting methodological frameworks when conducting research on sport policy and politics, with specific reference to methods derived from the fields of critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis and narrative analysis. In particular, this article critically reflects upon the political discourse analysis framework proposed by Isabela Fairclough and Norman Fairclough (2012), and the narrative analysis framework proposed by Margaret Somers (1994), drawing upon the findings of research which synthesised these distinct yet complementary analytical frameworks. With its central emphasis on the content and production of political discourse relating to the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the Scottish independence referendum, the methodological processes used in this thesis focused upon the identification of recurrent discursive forms from primary and secondary data sources including interviews with political actors, speech transcripts, manifestos, policy documents and press releases. Given the methodological synthesis evident in this approach, this article firstly provides a discussion of the paradigmatic assumptions of this analytical synthesis. Discussion then focuses on the provision of a more detailed outline of the Fairclough and Fairclough (2012) and Somers (1994) frameworks, and an explanation of the synthesis of the specific analytical frameworks adopted and the specific empirical methods employed. Finally, this article provides a reflexive critique of the relative merits of the chosen methodology, with specific consideration given to the promises and challenges of synthesising analytical frameworks in a similar fashion in future research within the field of sport policy and politics.

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Exploring the use of large sporting events in the post-crash, post-welfare city: A ‘legacy’ of increasing insecurity?

Abstract: Large scale sporting events are a major part of urban policy and regeneration strategies in the UK and globally. These events court as much controversy and criticism from academics and community groups

Cited by 16 publications

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The SNP, Scottish Labour and Glasgow 2014 – Contrasting Political Narratives of the 2014 Commonwealth Games

The SNP, Scottish Labour and Glasgow 2014 – Contrasting Political Narratives of the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Gendering the right to housing in the city: Homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London

Analysing sport policy and politics: the promises and challenges of synthesising methodological approaches

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