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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. DuignanOlympic 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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26Issue number
3Page range
587-603Publication title
Event ManagementISSN
1943-4308External DOI
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Cognizant Communication CorporationFile version
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- eng
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2022-05-06Legacy creation date
2022-05-06Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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