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Regulatory Informality Across Olympic Event Zones

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posted on 2023-07-26, 15:49 authored by Lewis Walsh, Simon Down, Michael B. Duignan
Olympic event zones are characterised as being intensely formally regulated during live staging periods, producing exclusionary environments blamed for side-lining host community interests. Yet, our findings contradict what scholars perceive to be inflexible formal regulations, and, the regulator’s ability to take informal action. By interviewing and drawing on the experience of 17 regulators during London 2012 we identify how regulators simultaneously oscillate between modes of regulatory formality and informality, straddling what is referred to as the ‘formality-informality span’. Our application and theorisation of these concepts critiques existing explanations of how regulation is enacted in mega-sporting events, providing new insights into the way organisers balance regulatory demands and potentially opening up new emancipatory policies and more equitable outcomes for host communities.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

26

Issue number

3

Page range

587-603

Publication title

Event Management

ISSN

1943-4308

Publisher

Cognizant Communication Corporation

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2022-05-06

Legacy creation date

2022-05-06

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Business & Law

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