Honours even?
The New Year’s Honours list revealed interesting definitions of what it is to be heroic. Sports men and women like Wiggins, Ennis and Ainslie were granted top honours and Lord Coe became a Companion of...
View Articlewhen's the divorce?
The BBC describes the Stadium deal as an "unavoidable marriage". We're left to wonder exactly how much Newham paid for the wedding present?. Coe's concerns weren't for footie of course or he'd have...
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Rage against the LVRPA
The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in in the post-Olympics discontent with a campaign in South London against paying any more money to the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority in North-East London....
View ArticleA Bankrupt Field of Dreams
The fraught disputes over how best to recoup the high construction and maintenance costs of the London Olympic stadium conform to a pattern previously seen elsewhere in England and abroad. The story of...
View ArticleRegeneration, the 2012 Olympics and the gentrification of East London
It's Not For UsPaul WattThis paper examines the much-hyped 2012 Olympic Games ‘legacy’ in relation to the displacement experiences of lower-income East Londoners. The paper begins by outlining the...
View ArticleTessa Jowell - Joan of Arc of the Allotments?
This article has been modified on receipt of further information.London's failed Olympic Legacy creates strange bedfellows. It seems London2012's scandalous allotments' legacy, which has been totally...
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Mega Sporting Events, Politics & Security in Brazil & Scotland in 2014
photo: MídiaNINJA by Janine Ewen, originally published on June 25, 2014 in RioOnWatch. The World Cup in Brazil has brought unprecedented criticism of the ways in which sporting mega-events are...
View ArticleRising East Online September 2006 edition
Links to four articles in Rising East Online worth looking atRegeneration Without End: Urban and Social Change in the East of London since the 1890s —William Mann; read more
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The Five Ring Circus - Myths and realities of the Olympic Games
"The Olympic Games, once considered the pinnacle of athleticism and fair play, have become a cesspool of greed, backroom deals and the wholesale trampling of civil liberties. In Vancouver, preparations...
View ArticleBy Any Means Necessary: Urban Regeneration and the “State of Exception” in...
Antipode Vol. 00 No. 0 2014 ISSN 0066-4812, pp 1–21© 2014 The Author. Antipode © 2014 Antipode Foundation Ltd.By Any Means Necessary: Urban Regeneration and the “State of Exception” in Glasgow’sread more
View ArticleCities Methodologies 2012
Games Monitor was pleased to exhibit at UCL Urban Laboratory's Cities Methodologies in April 2012. This essay, entitled Grasping the Incommensurable: Coresearch and Politics as Immanent Experience,...
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Brazil's Dance with the Devil - The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight...
Brazil's Dance with the Devil by Dave ZirinWritten by Dave Zirin, sports editor of the US newspaper The Nation, published by Haymarket Brazil's Dance with the Devil is a high octane read through the...
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Barbaric Sport - a Global Plague by Marc Perelman
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