We're not really here: Manchester City, mobility and placelessness

Redhead, Steve; Penny, Simon

doi:10.1080/17430430902944217

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Although some commentators suggest that sport spaces are becoming increasingly sterile (Vertinsky & Bale, 2004) and venues more placeless (Penny & Redhead, 2009), events are increasingly linked to places by host cities keen to maximize the outcomes of media coverage. Techniques used include placing destination logos in the field of play and staging events in locations where city icons and skylines are visually integrated.…”

Section: Place Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Olympic Experiences: the Significance of Place

Smith¹,

Brown²,

Assaker³

2017

Event Management

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Many studies analyze how events affect places, but few examine how places affect events. Existing research suggests that the physical qualities of a venue affect event experiences, but these studies often ignore subtler dimensions of place such as symbolism, affect, and identity. By narrowly focusing on venues, existing research also tends to neglect the fact that event places are perceived at a wider scale also (e.g., the host destination). Whether these wider place factors affect event experiences is the main question addressed by this study. The research involved a quantitative study of spectators who attended the London 2012 Olympic Games. The authors developed and tested a complex model that hypothesized the effects of place on satisfaction using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). After permissions were gained from the International Olympic Committee and the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, data were collected from over 600 people attending Olympic events. Research was undertaken at three different types of venue: The Aquatics Centre (a purpose-built venue), Greenwich Park (a temporary venue), and Wimbledon (an established venue). The findings showed that both venue attachment and place defined at the wider scale (at the destination level) had significant positive effects on event satisfaction. In addition, we found evidence that the different types of venues—purpose built, temporary, and established—moderated the relationship between venue attachment and event satisfaction. The results support venue attachment as a second-order factor and demonstrate the role of place symbolism within a four-dimensional conceptualization of place attachment. Ultimately, the research suggests that where an event is staged does affect event satisfaction, and this has important implications for the ways the Olympic Games and other large-scale events are staged.

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Section: Place Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Olympic Experiences: the Significance of Place

Smith¹,

Brown²,

Assaker³

2017

Event Management

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“…Rather than being confined to a physical catchment area or seen as embodying a lifelong commitment, consumers, powered by the global media, can now buy into the processes of connectivity associated with a ''fan community'' (Blackshaw, 2008;Stone, 2007). Whilst this has resulted in the decline of ''authentic'' fan communities 326 K. Southby (Penny & Redhead, 2009), these changes have been the catalyst to allow previously excluded groups, such as women, ethnic minorities and disabled people, to have more access to the fan experience (Williams, 2006).…”

Section: The Role Of Sport Leisure and Football In Tackling Social Ementioning

confidence: 95%

Football fandom, social inclusion and learning disability: opportunities and constraints

Southby

2011

World Leisure Journal

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In Britain, within the contemporary drive to use sport to tackle the isolation of socially excluded groups, football (soccer) fandom has been suggested in many policy documents as a possible site for enabling people with learning disabilities to become more socially included. Forming the basic theoretical work for my doctoral research, this paper provides a critical analysis of this so far unexamined discourse. Conclusions suggest that current policy represents a simplistic and overly romanticised view of people with learning disabilities as football fans, leaving many unanswered questions about what social inclusion targets can reasonably be met through football fandom.

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“…However, it is noted that most sporting teams will have a core of hardened fans who will attend regardless of factors such as team performance, weather conditions and stadium facilities. When spectators return to a stadium repeatedly over time, a sense of identification with a venue can be developed (Penny and Redhead 2009). This love of place has been termed topophilia (Bale 1996;Ramshaw and Gammon 2010) and home stadiums have been found to generate location pride, awareness and geographic memories (Ramshaw and Gammon 2010).…”

Section: At the Stadiummentioning

confidence: 99%