Titlebook: Contesting the Olympics in American Cities; Chicago 2016, Boston Greg Andranovich,Matthew J. Burbank Book 2021 The Author(s), under exclusi

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Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and Opposition, of community activists calling itself No Games Chicago. The efforts of this opposition group helped to raise concerns about the Chicago bid in the international competition and establish a new model for effective opposition to Olympic driven development.

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Thomas Aquinas on the Vegetative Soul,ympic bid had the support of the mayor and downtown business leaders and appeared to provide an opportunity for redeveloping parts of the downtown core in a manner fitting with the city’s neoliberal development trajectory. Yet, the Olympic bid also generated opposition, most notably from a coalition

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69831-7litically connected Boston developer. The city’s bid attracted the support from business and sporting elites and secured the endorsement of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), but the bid was never fully embraced by city and state political leaders. The bid drew opposition from two small but active gro

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Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice,ational Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision in 2017 to award games to Paris in 2024 and LA in 2028, however, transformed the usual bid process into an extended period of preparation for the games. Shortly before the IOC’s decision was announced, opposition to hosting the games emerged in the form of

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70679-1s of the event rather than try to create a more robust anti-growth movement. The evidence from Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles suggests that the nature of urban opposition to the Olympics has changed. Drawing on the research of other scholars as well as our case studies, we argue that contemporary

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Greg Andranovich,Matthew J. BurbankExamines American opposition and resistance in the context of changes in mega-event politics after the GFC.Offers new documentary sources and interviews with opposition and resistance leaders.Presents