Rethinking Olympic Legacy
Rethinking Olympic Legacy by Vassil Girginov, published by Taylor & Francis Group in 2018, explores the concept of Olympic legacies through a fresh lens. This edition, comprising 215 pages, shifts the focus from viewing legacy as a retrospective notion to understanding it as a prospective process driven by actions and interactions initiated by the Games. The book challenges traditional frameworks and offers insights into how Olympic legacies are created and sustained over time.
Readers will find a detailed examination of a four-stage process that includes investing, interpelling, developing, and codifying, each contributing to the ongoing creation of Olympic legacy. The text emphasizes capacity building at various levels—individual, organizational, and societal—while linking these concepts to the broader aspirations of the Olympic Movement. Rethinking Olympic Legacy serves as a resource for students, scholars, and professionals engaged in the fields of sports, economics, and cultural studies, providing a comprehensive understanding of the implications of mega-sport events.
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How do Olympic legacies come about? This book offers an alternative approach to the study of Olympic and mega-sport event legacy, challenging how legacy is conceptualised and practised. It shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the Games, to a prospective one interested in actions and interactions stimulated by the Games.
The book argues that creating Olympic legacy is a continuing four-stage process involving ‘investing’ (the accumulated common Olympic cultural capital), ‘interpelling’ (forming a trusteeship relationship where one party undertakes to change the capacity of another), ‘developing’ (ensuring participation in interactions and resource development) and ‘codifying’ (documenting, sharing and remembering legacies so they become cultural capital). It presents a developmental approach to the Olympics which involves vision, trustees and trusteeship and is concerned with capacity building at individual, organisational and societal levels. Thinking of Olympic legacy as capacity building allows seeing the goal of legacy as an embodiment of the aspirations of the Olympic Movement and the Games to introduce radical change in society by transforming its structure.
Rethinking Olympic Legacy is essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the Olympics, as well as for administrators, policymakers and planners involved with mega-sport events.
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