Tag: Zachary R. Calo
Successful collection offers valuable contributions and insights
The edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights (Routledge) provides new perspectives on human rights as a lens for understanding modern sport and as a guiding principle for responsible sport that protects the interests of individuals and communities, as well as offering guidance on best practice. Lina von Petersdorff has read this vast collection and found it to be a successful venture where the chapters build upon each other to create a comprehensive understanding of the kind of problems involved in protecting human rights in mega-sporting events.
Mega-handbook on mega-events: The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts
The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.
