Tag: social value

Sport provides an arena for societal activity: a forum in which politics, the economy, and the third sector meet. Organised sport can thus be understood as a microcosm of public life, encompassing economic activity, civic participation, and identity politics. Although often organised beyond the formal public sector, sport remains closely connected to public governance through public funding, regulation, and expectations of integrity, equality, transparency, participation, legitimacy, and accountability. This edited volume invites scholars to examine this arena as a setting in which public, private, and civil society actors jointly create, contest, and sometimes destroy public value through hybrid arrangements. 

The aim of this call for papers is to collect contributions that can build an integrated inter-disciplinary outlook of how the social value of events can be strategically fostered, negotiated, reconstructed and amplified. It seeks out cross- inter- and trans-disciplinary contributions that shed light on the multi-layered processes shaping the social value of events and potential for synergies between different event genres, purposes or outcomes that can magnify their overall social value for host communities.