Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.Drawing on the contributions of an international group of leading researchers practitioners and advocates the book introduces key concepts in human rights and considers how they relate to ethical social managerial and governance issues in contemporary MSEs from inclusion and welfare to corruption and sustainability. It examines the role of key stakeholders in the delivery of MSEs including organising committees sport governing bodies governments athletes sponsors and broadcasters as well as the role of activists and advocates and presents historical and contemporary case studies of human rights as an active issue in MSEs. The book 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.It is essential reading for all advanced students researchers practitioners policymakers and stakeholders with an interest in organisation and delivery of MSEs as well as general sport management sport policy sport governance the ethics of sport event management political science development studies ethical business or the significance of sport in wider society.Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.